USN-4522-1: noVNC vulnerability

First published: Mon Sep 21 2020(Updated: )

It was discovered that noVNC did not properly manage certain messages, resulting in the remote VNC server injecting arbitrary HTML into the noVNC web page. An attacker could use this issue to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. (CVE-2017-18635)

Affected Software	Affected Version	How to fix
All of
ubuntu/novnc	<1:0.4+dfsg+1+20131010+gitf68af8af3d-4+deb8u1build0.16.04.1	1:0.4+dfsg+1+20131010+gitf68af8af3d-4+deb8u1build0.16.04.1
Ubuntu Ubuntu	=16.04
All of
ubuntu/python-novnc	<1:0.4+dfsg+1+20131010+gitf68af8af3d-4+deb8u1build0.16.04.1	1:0.4+dfsg+1+20131010+gitf68af8af3d-4+deb8u1build0.16.04.1
Ubuntu Ubuntu	=16.04

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CVE-2017-18635

agent/weakness
agent/severity
agent/last-modified-date
agent/references
agent/title
agent/softwarecombine
agent/type
agent/description
agent/first-publish-date
agent/event
agent/tags
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source/Ubuntu
agent/software-canonical-lookup
agent/trending
package-manager/ubuntu
vendor/ubuntu
canonical/ubuntu ubuntu
version/ubuntu ubuntu/16.04

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