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)

EPSS: 0.011 (61.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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.

Affected products

Uninett Mod_auth_mellon
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, 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.