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CVE-2016-1566

Publication date 2 February 2017

Last updated 24 July 2024


Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.4 · Medium

Score breakdown

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the file browser in Guacamole 0.9.8 and 0.9.9, when file transfer is enabled to a location shared by multiple users, allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted filename. NOTE: this vulnerability was fixed in guacamole.war on 2016-01-13, but the version number was not changed.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
guacamole-client 18.10 cosmic
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
17.10 artful Ignored end of life
17.04 zesty Ignored end of life
16.10 yakkety Ignored end of life
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
12.04 LTS precise Not in release
guacamole-server 18.10 cosmic
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
17.10 artful Ignored end of life
17.04 zesty Ignored end of life
16.10 yakkety Ignored end of life
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
12.04 LTS precise Not in release

Notes


seth-arnold

It looks like the guacamole version numbers are useless: there are both broken versions 0.9.8 and 0.9.9 and fixed versions 0.9.8 and 0.9.9. They apparently make changes and republish with the same version number. Thus I'm being conservative and marking everything as affected.


ebarretto

Affects client only

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package Patch details
guacamole-server

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 5.4 · Medium
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction Required
Scope Changed
Confidentiality Low
Integrity impact Low
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N