CVE-2015-5216

ipsilon: XSS due to exception handling

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

4.3

CVSS 2.0

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Published · August 19, 2015

Updated · November 22, 2025

Description

A flaw was discovered in the Ipsilon IdP server in its use of Python templates, where JavaScript code could potentially be injected into an Python exception-message template. A remote, unauthorised attacker could use this flaw to perform an XXS attack.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')