CVE-2008-7017 — 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

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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

Published Aug 21, 2009

4.3

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.90%

Description

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

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.90% 0.00898

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00898

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (9 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.90% (0.00898)	58.14th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.90% (0.00898)	54.74th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.55% (0.00549)	65.96th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.19% (0.00195)	58.39th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jan 24, 2024	0.19% (0.00195)	57.48th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.19% (0.00195)	55.48th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.92% (0.01917)	78.00th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.92% (0.01917)	76.01th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.92% (0.01917)	55.17th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-79

Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

References (3)

http://www.cynops.de/advisories/AKLINK-SA-2008-007.txt
x_refsource_MISCExploit
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31481
vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDExploit
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45515
vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Link	Providers	Tags
http://www.cynops.de/advisories/AKLINK-SA-2008-007.txt		x_refsource_MISCExploit
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31481		vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDExploit
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45515		vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Aug 21, 2009

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Aug 21, 2009

Link CVE-2008-7017

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2008-7017

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

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