Cross-site scripting - CVE-2017-0378
Published: July 20, 2017 / Updated: August 4, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU33524
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-0378
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists in "the login_form function in views/helpers.php in Phamm before 0.6.7, exploitable" due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data passed via the PATH_INFO to main.php. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
Affected software
libgcrypt (Alpine package)
How to mitigate CVE-2017-0378
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.
libgcrypt (Alpine package) - update to 1.7.9-r0