What is CVE-2017-6807?

CVE-2017-6807 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Uninett Mod Auth Mellon, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2017-03-13.

How severe is CVE-2017-6807?

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

XSS in Uninett Mod Auth Mellon

CVE-2017-6807

mod_auth_mellon before 0.13.1 is vulnerable to a Cross-Site Session Transfer attack, where a user with access to one web site running on a server can copy their session cookie to a different web site on the same server to get access to that site.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2017-03-13 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.011 (63.4th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 63rd percentile — 63.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.011 · newest: 0.011 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Uninett Mod Auth Mellon

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

github.com/UNINETT/mod_auth_mellon/releases/tag/v0.13.1 (Patch, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/96843 (vdb-entry)
sympa.uninett.no/lists/uninett.no/arc/modmellon/2017-03/msg00008.html (Not Applicable)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-6807?: CVE-2017-6807 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Uninett Mod Auth Mellon, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2017-03-13.
How severe is CVE-2017-6807?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.