CVE-2005-4831 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2005-4831

viewcvs in ViewCVS 0.9.2 allows remote attackers to set the...

Vulnerability Description

viewcvs in ViewCVS 0.9.2 allows remote attackers to set the Content-Type header to arbitrary values via the content-type parameter, which can be leveraged for cross-site scripting (XSS) and other attacks, as demonstrated using (1) "text/html", or (2) "image/jpeg" with an image that is rendered as HTML by Internet Explorer, a different vulnerability than CVE-2004-1062. NOTE: it was later reported that 0.9.4 is also affected.

Impact Analysis

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Remediation

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Credits & Attribution

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References

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

viewcvs
Vulnerable Versions:
0.9.2

Timeline

Official Publish: March 3rd, 2007
Last Modified: August 8th, 2024
Added to House: July 18th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.