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.
Remediation
References
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0754
https://bugs.launchpad.net/horizon/+bug/1656435
https://github.com/novnc/noVNC/commit/6048299a138e078aed210f163111698c8c526a13#diff-286f7dc7b881e942e97cd50c10898f03L534
https://github.com/novnc/noVNC/issues/748
https://github.com/novnc/noVNC/releases/tag/v0.6.2
https://github.com/ShielderSec/cve-2017-18635
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00004.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/12/msg00024.html
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4522-1/
https://www.shielder.it/blog/exploiting-an-old-novnc-xss-cve-2017-18635-in-openstack/
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