CVE-2006-5442: Viewvc

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

ViewVC 1.0.2 and earlier does not specify a charset in its HTTP headers or HTML documents, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks that inject arbitrary UTF-7 encoded JavaScript code via a view.

Affected products

• Viewvc Viewvc: up to and including 1.0.2

Published 2006-10-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.