CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-16043

6.1 MEDIUM Published 2018-06-04 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-06-04
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.1 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-74, CWE-80

Description

Shout is an IRC client. Because the `/topic` command in messages is unescaped, attackers have the ability to inject HTML scripts that will run in the victim's browser. Affects shout >=0.44.0 <=0.49.3.

Affected configurations

• shout project shout (>= 0.44.0 < 0.50.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-74 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component weakness
  • CWE-80 Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page weakness

References