CVE-2008-2168

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

1.0

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Apache 2.2.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via UTF-7 encoded URLs that are not properly handled when displaying the 403 Forbidden error page.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

55%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

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

Exploit-DB

EDB-31759 remote windows verified

Yaniv Miron · 2008-05-08

Microsoft Internet Explorer 2 - UTF-7 HTTP Response Handling

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

OS impact

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`2.2.8-1`
sid	Fixed	`2.2.8-1`
forky	Fixed	`2.2.8-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`2.2.8-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`2.2.8-1`

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-2168

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

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