CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-18635
6.1 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-09-25
- 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-79
Description
An XSS vulnerability was discovered in noVNC before 0.6.2 in which the remote VNC server could inject arbitrary HTML into the noVNC web page via the messages propagated to the status field, such as the VNC server name.
Affected configurations
• novnc novnc (< 0.6.2)
• debian debian linux 8.0
• debian debian linux 9.0
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• redhat openstack 13
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0754 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/horizon/+bug/1656435 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/ShielderSec/cve-2017-18635 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/novnc/noVNC/commit/6048299a138e078aed210f163111698c8c526a13#diff-286f7dc7b881e942e97cd50c10898f03L534 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/novnc/noVNC/issues/748 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/novnc/noVNC/releases/tag/v0.6.2 Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00004.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/12/msg00024.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4522-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.shielder.it/blog/exploiting-an-old-novnc-xss-cve-2017-18635-in-openstack/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0754 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/horizon/+bug/1656435 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/ShielderSec/cve-2017-18635 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/novnc/noVNC/commit/6048299a138e078aed210f163111698c8c526a13#diff-286f7dc7b881e942e97cd50c10898f03L534 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/novnc/noVNC/issues/748 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/novnc/noVNC/releases/tag/v0.6.2 Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00004.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/12/msg00024.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4522-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.shielder.it/blog/exploiting-an-old-novnc-xss-cve-2017-18635-in-openstack/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory