What is CVE-2017-16908?

CVE-2017-16908 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Horde Groupware, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2017-11-20.

How severe is CVE-2017-16908?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.

XSS in Horde Groupware

CVE-2017-16908

In Horde Groupware 5.2.19, there is XSS via the Name field during creation of a new Resource. This can be leveraged for remote code execution after compromising an administrator account, because the CVE-2015-7984 CSRF protection mechanism…

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.005 (64.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Horde Groupware — versions 5.2.19
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-16908?: CVE-2017-16908 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Horde Groupware, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2017-11-20.
How severe is CVE-2017-16908?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.