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vendor:
CAcert
by:
SecurityFocus
7.5
CVSS
HIGH
Cross-Site Scripting
79
CWE
Product Name: CAcert
Affected Version From: On or before September 21, 2008
Affected Version To: On or before September 21, 2008
Patch Exists: YES
Related CWE: N/A
CPE: N/A
Metasploit: N/A
Other Scripts: N/A
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2008

CAcert Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

CAcert is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability because it fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied data. An attacker may leverage this issue to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This may allow the attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials and to launch other attacks.

Mitigation:

Input validation should be used to ensure that untrusted data is not used to dynamically generate web content.
Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31481/info

CAcert is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability because it fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied data.

An attacker may leverage this issue to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This may allow the attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials and to launch other attacks.

This issue affects versions of the CAcert source code released on or before September 21, 2008. 

openssl req -new -x509 -subj "/CN=<\/pre><script>alert(document.cookies)<\/script><pre>"