CVE-2008-5729: Netcat

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in AIST NetCat 3.12 and earlier allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) form and (2) control parameters to FCKeditor/neditor.php, and the (3) path parameter to admin/siteinfo/iframe.inc.php.

Affected products

• Netcat Netcat: up to and including 3.12; version 1.1 only; version 2.0 only; version 2.1 only; version 2.2 only; version 2.3 only; …

Published 2008-12-26. Last modified 2026-06-16.