CVE-2008-7017

MEDIUM 4.3CVE-2008-7017 · Published 21/08/2009 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2008-7017 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.3) vulnerability affecting cacert (cacert).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.90%, higher than 59.8% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
cacert cacert	`= 20080921`	No fix yet

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in analyse.php in CAcert 20080921, and possibly other versions before 20080928, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the CN (CommonName) field in the subject of an X.509 certificate.

References

cynops.de/advisories/AKLINK-SA-2008-007.txt · Exploit
securityfocus.com/bid/31481 · Exploit
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45515

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