Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-16908

RCE

Title: Horde Groupware RCE

XSS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-16908.

CWE Category CWE-79

Published Date Nov 20, 2017

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.4 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.75%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-16908: In Horde Groupware 5.2.19, there is XSS via the Name field during creation of a new Resource. This can be leveraged for remote code execution after compromising an administrator account, because the CVE-2015-7984 CSRF protection mechanism can then be bypassed.

Impacted Vendors

horde 1

nulllogic 1

handysoft 1

Reference Links

http://code610.blogspot.com/2017/11/rce-via-xss-horde-5219.html https://github.com/horde/kronolith/commit/39f740068ad21618f6f70b6e37855c61cadbd716 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00048.html http://code610.blogspot.com/2017/11/rce-via-xss-horde-5219.html https://github.com/horde/kronolith/commit/39f740068ad21618f6f70b6e37855c61cadbd716 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00048.html

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.4

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

REQUIRED

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

CHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity LOW

3.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns