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CVE-2006-5791 (GCVE-0-2006-5791)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2006-11-07 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 20:04
VLAI
Summary
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in elogd.c in ELOG 2.6.2 and earlier allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTML or web script via (1) the filename for downloading, which is not quoted in an error message by the send_file_direct function, and (2) the Type or Category values in a New entry, which is not properly handled in an error message by the submit_elog function.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/23580 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20881 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1242 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://secunia.com/advisories/22638 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4315 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20882 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=392016 x_refsource_MISC
Date Public
2006-11-02 00:00
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