ubuntu · CVE-2017-5938

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Priority: medium Published: 2017-03-15 14:59:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:35:27 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2017-5938 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (viewvc), 6 status rows across 6 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety, zesty): released 4, ignored 1, not-affected 1.

Description:

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the nav_path function in lib/viewvc.py in ViewVC before 1.0.14 and 1.1.x before 1.1.26 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the nav_data name.

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