CVE-2017-6540

CVSS V2 Medium 4.3 CVSS V3 Medium 6.1
Description
Multiple Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) issues were discovered in webpagetest 3.0. The vulnerabilities exist due to insufficient filtration of user-supplied data (configs) passed to the webpagetest-master/www/benchmarks/compare.php URL. An attacker could execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a browser in the context of the vulnerable website.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2017-6540
  • Assigner
  • cve@mitre.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Modified
  • Published Version
  • 2017-03-08T08:59:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2017-03-18T01:59:06
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-79 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/79.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:webpagetest_project:webpagetest:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • MEDIUM
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Availability Impact
  • NONE
  • Base Score
  • 4.3
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 8.6
  • Impact Score
  • 2.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.0
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
  • Attack Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • REQUIRED
  • Scope
  • CHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • LOW
  • Availability Impact
  • NONE
  • Base Score
  • 6.1
  • Base Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 2.8
  • Impact Score
  • 2.7
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://github.com/WPO-Foundation/webpagetest/issues/830 Exploit Issue Tracking Patch
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96935
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-6540
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-6540
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 09:47:00 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-02 14:34:03 2017-03-08T08:59Z 2017-03-08T08:59:00 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-02 14:34:03 2017-03-18T01:59:06 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-02 14:34:03 Modified Vulnerability Status updated