CVE-2008-2168
mediumpriority · attend · 46EPSS 0.549 · 99 %ileexploit · functionalEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-23
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.
cvss
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode
weaknesses
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exploits (1)
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- EDB-31759Microsoft Internet Explorer 2 - UTF-7 HTTP Response Handlingfunctional · exploit_db
affected products (48)
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also known as (2)
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sources
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references (30)
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- http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01539432enisa_euvd
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=124654546101607&w=2enisa_euvd
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=125631037611762&w=2enisa_euvd
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31651enisa_euvd
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34219enisa_euvd
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35650enisa_euvd
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3889enisa_euvd
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/491862/100/0/threadedenisa_euvd
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