CVE-2017-16819

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Published 2017-11-17 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

5.4

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.4

Description

A stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in the Icon Time Systems RTC-1000 v2.5.7458 and earlier time clock allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary JavaScript in the nameFirst (aka First Name) field for the employee details page (/employee.html) that is then reflected in multiple pages where that field data is utilized, resulting in session hijacking and possible elevation of privileges.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

64%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-43158 webapps hardware

Keith Thome · 2017-11-17

Icon Time Systems RTC-1000 Firmware 2.5.7458 - Cross-Site Scripting

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

References

CWEs

CWE-79

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.