What is CVE-2017-5964?

CVE-2017-5964 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Openenergymonitor Emoncms, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2017-02-12.

How severe is CVE-2017-5964?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.

XSS in Openenergymonitor Emoncms

CVE-2017-5964

An issue was discovered in Emoncms through 9.8.0. The vulnerability exists due to insufficient filtration of user-supplied data in multiple HTTP GET parameters passed to the "emoncms-master/Modules/vis/visualisations/compare.php" URL. An attacker could execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a browser in the context of the vulnerable website.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.009 (56.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Openenergymonitor Emoncms
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Patch, x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-5964?: CVE-2017-5964 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Openenergymonitor Emoncms, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2017-02-12.
How severe is CVE-2017-5964?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.