National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-0455
Original release date:01/25/2008
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the mod_negotiation module in the Apache HTTP Server 2.2.6 and earlier in the 2.2.x series, 2.0.61 and earlier in the 2.0.x series, and 1.3.39 and earlier in the 1.3.x series allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by uploading a file with a name containing XSS sequences and a file extension, which leads to injection within a (1) "406 Not Acceptable" or (2) "300 Multiple Choices" HTTP response when the extension is omitted in a request for the file.
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 (01/25/2008)
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We do not consider this issue to be security sensitive. Untrusted users should not be permitted to upload files to the directories from where they can be directly served by the web server without prior careful sanitation of both contents and filename.
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External Source: BID
Name: 27409
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20080122 Apache mod_negotiation Xss and Http Response Splitting
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.mindedsecurity.com/MSA01150108.html
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1019256
External Source: XF
Name: apache-modnegotiation-xss(39867)
External Source: SREASON
Name: 3575
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200803-19
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 29348
