CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-16043

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection')

Published: Jun 04, 2018 | Modified: Oct 09, 2019
CVSS 3.x
6.1
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Shout is an IRC client. Because the /topic command in messages is unescaped, attackers have the ability to inject HTML scripts that will run in the victims browser. Affects shout >=0.44.0 <=0.49.3.

Weakness

The product constructs all or part of a command, data structure, or record using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify how it is parsed or interpreted when it is sent to a downstream component.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Shout Shout_project 0.44.0 (including) 0.50.0 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References