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CVE-2016-1566

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the file browser in Guacamole 0.9.8 and 0.9.9, when file transfer is enabled to a location shared by multiple users, allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted filename. NOTE: this vulnerability was fixed in guacamole.war on 2016-01-13, but the version number was not changed.

Published

2017-02-02T15:59:00.140

Last Modified

2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.0: 5.4 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: MEDIUM
Authentication: SINGLE
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: PARTIAL
Availability Impact: NONE

Exploitability Score

6.8

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-79

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	apache	guacamole	0.9.8	Yes
Application	apache	guacamole	0.9.9	Yes

References

https://sourceforge.net/p/guacamole/news/2016/02/security-advisory---stored-xss-cve-2016-1566--guac-1465/ Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://sourceforge.net/p/guacamole/news/2016/02/security-advisory---stored-xss-cve-2016-1566--guac-1465/ Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)