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Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 23:23:06 -0600
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: nicolas.alvarez@...il.com
Subject: Re: CVE Request: viewvc 1.1.5 lib/viewvc.py XSS
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On 10/20/2012 11:19 PM, Kurt Seifried wrote:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=691062
>
> From: Nicolás Alvarez <nicolas.alvarez@...il.com> To: Debian Bug
> Tracking System <submit@...s.debian.org> Subject: viewvc: XSS bug
> in diff view Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 17:54:18 -0300 [Message part 1
> (text/plain, inline)] Package: viewvc Version: 1.1.5-1.3 Severity:
> important Tags: security
>
> There is an XSS bug in the diff view, exploitable by people with
> commit access to the repository. The "function name" lines returned
> by diff (in the diff lines starting with @@) are not HTML-escaped.
>
> Here's an example. Add this file to a SVN repository:
>
> blah x <script>alert("XSS!");</script> one context two context
> three context trigger
>
> Commit it. Next, change the line labeled 'trigger', and commit
> again. The diff produced by the second commit is:
>
> @@ -3,4 +3,4 @@ x <script>alert("XSS!");</script> one context two
> context three context -trigger +trigger X
>
> When telling ViewVC to show the diff of that file for the last
> commit, it doesn't HTML-escape the <script>, so it gets executed.
>
> I'm attaching a patch that should fix this bug.
>
> I don't have a CVE number. I haven't reported this upstream. I
> quickly glanced at the upstream bug list and dev list archives and
> it didn't seem to be already reported, but I didn't search
> carefully.
I checked CVE (nothing for this) and the ChangeLogs/etc. This is
indeed a new issue. Please use CVE-2012-4533 for this issue.
- --
Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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