CVE-2016-4561 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the cgierror function in CGI.pm in ikiwiki before 3.20160506 might allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors involving an error message.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Debian	Debian Linux
Ikiwiki	Ikiwiki

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:ikiwiki:ikiwiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2 [-]

cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

No data.

References

Link	Providers
http://ikiwiki.info/security/#index43h2
http://source.ikiwiki.branchable.com/?p=source.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=32ef584dc5abb6ddb9f794f94ea0b2934967bba7
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3571

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: debian

Published: 2016-05-10T19:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T00:32:25.840Z

Reserved: 2016-05-06T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-4561

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2016-05-10T19:59:04.307

Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Link: CVE-2016-4561

Redhat

No data.

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