National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-1454
Original release date:03/14/2007
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
ext/filter in PHP 5.2.0, when FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING is used with the FILTER_FLAG_STRIP_LOW flag, does not properly strip HTML tags, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via HTML with a '<' character followed by certain whitespace characters, which passes one filter but is collapsed into a valid tag, as demonstrated using %0b.
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 (04/16/2007)
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Not vulnerable. The filter extension was not shipped in versions of PHP
provided for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, 5, Stronghold 4.0, or
Red Hat Application Stack 1.
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External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.php-security.org/MOPB/MOPB-18-2007.html
External Source: BID
Name: 22914
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SA:2007:032
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2007:090
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1283
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 25062
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 25056
