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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.3

CVE-2007-5961 json

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Red Hat Network channel search feature, as used in RHN and Red Hat Network Satellite before…

published 2008-05-23 18 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2007-5931

cvss
4.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.1%
EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 65%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Red Hat Network channel search feature, as used in RHN and Red Hat Network Satellite before 5.0.2, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unknown vectors.

Patch / fix

  • jabberd network satellite 5.0 2.0s10-3.38.rhn
  • tomcat5 network satellite 5.0 5.0.30-0jpp_10rh
  • jfreechart network satellite 5.0 0.9.20-3.rhn
  • rhn-apache network satellite 5.0 1.3.27-36.rhn.rhel4
  • rhn-modssl network satellite 5.0 2.8.12-8.rhn.10.rhel4
  • openmotif21 network satellite 5.0 2.1.30-11.RHEL4.6
  • rhn-modperl network satellite 5.0 1.29-16.rhel4
  • java-1.4.2-ibm network satellite 5.0 1.4.2.10-1jpp.2.el4

red hat advisories RHSA-2008:0261

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2007-5961 updated

RHN XSS flaw

  • Red Hat Satellite 5.0 (RHEL v.4 AS) jabberd 2.0s10-3.38.rhn, jfreechart 0.9.20-3.rhn, tomcat5 5.0.30-0jpp_10rh, perl-Crypt-CBC 2.24-1.el4, rhn-modperl 1.29-16.rhel4, openmotif21 2.1.30-11.RHEL4.6, +4 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2008:0261

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.08% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 65% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.