| Name | CVE-2017-18635 |
| Description | An XSS vulnerability was discovered in noVNC before 0.6.2 in which the remote VNC server could inject arbitrary HTML into the noVNC web page via the messages propagated to the status field, such as the VNC server name. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-1946-1, DLA-2854-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| novnc (PTS) | buster | 1:1.0.0-1 | fixed |
| bullseye | 1:1.0.0-3 | fixed |
| bookworm | 1:1.3.0-1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 1:1.3.0-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| novnc | source | jessie | 1:0.4+dfsg+1+20131010+gitf68af8af3d-4+deb8u1 | | DLA-1946-1 | |
| novnc | source | stretch | 1:0.4+dfsg+1+20131010+gitf68af8af3d-6+deb9u1 | | DLA-2854-1 | |
| novnc | source | (unstable) | 1:1.0.0-1 | | | |
Notes
https://bugs.launchpad.net/horizon/+bug/1656435
https://github.com/novnc/noVNC/commit/6048299a138e078aed210f163111698c8c526a13#diff-286f7dc7b881e942e97cd50c10898f03L534
https://github.com/novnc/noVNC/issues/748