National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-1903
Original release date:06/03/2009
Last revised:07/15/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The PDF XSS protection feature in ModSecurity before 2.5.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (Apache httpd crash) via a request for a PDF file that does not use the GET method.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
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External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2009-2686
Type: Patch Information
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2009-2654
Type: Patch Information
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2009-0703
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: modsecurity-pdfxss-dos(49211)
External Source: BID
Name: 34096
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 52552
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=667538
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200907-02
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 35687
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 34311
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 34256
Type: Advisory
