National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-1594
Original release date:05/21/2009
Last revised:05/23/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Armorlogic Profense Web Application Firewall before 2.2.22, and 2.4.x before 2.4.4, does not properly implement the "positive model," which allows remote attackers to bypass certain protection mechanisms via a %0A (encoded newline), as demonstrated by a %0A in a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack URL.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
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 disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: XF
Name: profense-whitelist-security-bypass(50662)
External Source: MLIST
Name: [websecurity] 20090519 [WEB SECURITY] Trustwave's SpiderLabs Security Advisory TWSL2009-001 and EnableSecurity Advisory ES-20090500
External Source: BID
Name: 35053
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20090520 Armorlogic Profense Web Application Firewall 2.4 multiple vulnerabilities.
External Source: MISC
Name: http://resources.enablesecurity.com/advisories/ES-20090500-profense.txt