RSSOwl < 1.2.3 Atom Feed XSS

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 3746

Synopsis

The remote host is vulnerable to an HTML Injection attack.

Description

The remote host is running RSSOwl, a free RSS reader. RSSOwl 1.2.2 (build 2006-08-27) and lower are reported vulnerable to flaws that would allow malicious RSS servers to execute malicious code via the RSSOwl application.

Solution

Upgrade to version 1.2.3 or higher.

See Also

http://www.rssowl.org

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 3746

Family: Web Clients

Published: 9/20/2006

Updated: 3/6/2019

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:benjamin_pasero_and_tobias_eichert:rssowl

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-4760

BID: 20110