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Status published
Medium
CVE-2017-18635
An XSS vulnerability was discovered in noVNC before 0.6.2 in...
Vulnerability 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.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- https://github.com/novnc/noVNC/issues/748
- https://github.com/novnc/noVNC/releases/tag/v0.6.2
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/horizon/+bug/1656435
- https://github.com/novnc/noVNC/commit/6048299a138e078aed210f163111698c8c526a13#diff-286f7dc7b881e942e97cd50c10898f03L534
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00004.html
- https://www.shielder.it/blog/exploiting-an-old-novnc-xss-cve-2017-18635-in-openstack/
- https://github.com/ShielderSec/cve-2017-18635
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0754
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4522-1/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/12/msg00024.html
Affected Vendor
novnc
View all reports →Affected Software
novnc, debian linux, ubuntu linux, openstack
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 8.0, 9.0, 16.04, 13
Timeline
Official Publish:
September 25th, 2019
Last Modified:
August 5th, 2024
Added to House:
July 20th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
V3:
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.