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CVE-2008-2168
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Apache 2.2.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via…
Medium4.3EPSS 54.9%
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- mitre
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 54.9% · top 1.0% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (15)
- 3889 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- apache-403-xss(42303) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 34219 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 20080512 Re: Re: Re: Apache Server HTML Injection and UTF-7 XSS Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5143 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- HPSBUX02465 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HPx_transferred
- 31651 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- SSRT090085 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HPx_transferred
- 29112 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- USN-731-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- HPSBUX02365 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HPx_transferred
- 20080510 Re: Apache Server HTML Injection and UTF-7 XSS Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20080508 Apache Server HTML Injection and UTF-7 XSS Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20080510 Re: Re: Apache Server HTML Injection and UTF-7 XSS Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 35650 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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