Bug#762967: XSS in bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/version.cgi

On Sat, 27 Sep 2014, Vlad Constantin wrote:
> I'll add to this bug instead of making a new one.
> 
> /cgi-bin/cookies.cgi contains XSS (persistent via cookie) and Header
> injection vulnerabilities in vars repeatmerged, terse, reverse, trim,
> oldview
> 
> XSS PoC:
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/cookies.cgi?repeatmerged=%3Cscript%3Ealert('xss')%3B%3C/script%3E
> Header injection PoC:
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/cookies.cgi?repeatmerged=%0aLocation%3A%20http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com%2F%0a

Thanks for reporting these; those scripts probably shouldn't even be in
use at all. I've already removed them from bugs.debian.org, and I'll
probably eliminate them from git shortly.


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