National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-2168
Original release date:05/13/2008
Last revised:10/31/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification
Official Statement from Red Hat (05/14/2008)
This is actually a flaw in browsers that do not derive the response character set as required by RFC 2616. This does not affect the default configuration of Apache httpd in Red Hat products and will only affect customers who have removed the "AddDefaultCharset" directive.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2008-2168
Official Statement from Apache (05/14/2008)
The Apache security team state that this issue is due to web browsers that are violating RFC2616 and is not a flaw in the Apache HTTPD Server.
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External Source: XF
Name: apache-403-xss(42303)
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-731-1
External Source: BID
Name: 29112
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20080512 Re: Re: Re: Apache Server HTML Injection and UTF-7 XSS Vulnerability
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20080510 Re: Re: Apache Server HTML Injection and UTF-7 XSS Vulnerability
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20080510 Re: Apache Server HTML Injection and UTF-7 XSS Vulnerability
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20080508 Apache Server HTML Injection and UTF-7 XSS Vulnerability
External Source: SREASON
Name: 3889
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 35650
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 34219
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 31651
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5143
External Source: HP
Name: HPSBUX02465
External Source: HP
Name: HPSBUX02465
External Source: HP
Name: HPSBUX02431
External Source: HP
Name: HPSBUX02431
External Source: HP
Name: HPSBUX02365
External Source: HP
Name: HPSBUX02365
