Cross-site Scripting (XSS) The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package guacamole-client  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1810-GUACAMOLECLIENT-622823
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed2 Feb 2017

Introduced: 2 Feb 2017

CVE-2016-1566  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:18.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream guacamole-client package and not the guacamole-client package as distributed by Ubuntu.

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.