CVE-2008-7017: Cacert

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in analyse.php in CAcert 20080921, and possibly other versions before 20080928, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the CN (CommonName) field in the subject of an X.509 certificate.

Affected products

• Cacert Cacert: version 20080921 only

Published 2009-08-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.