CVE-2008-0005

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 14.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-01-12 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

mod_proxy_ftp in Apache 2.2.x before 2.2.7-dev, 2.0.x before 2.0.62-dev, and 1.3.x before 1.3.40-dev does not define a charset, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks using UTF-7 encoding.

Affected products

Apache HTTP Server: from 2.0.35 before 2.0.63; from 2.2.0 before 2.2.8 — fixed in 2.0.63, 2.2.8
Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 6.06, 6.10, 7.04, 7.10
Fedoraproject Fedora: 7, 8

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Apache HTTP Server 2.0.63, 2.2.8. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00004.html
http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2009/000062.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=124654546101607&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=125631037611762&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=130497311408250&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/28467
http://secunia.com/advisories/28471
http://secunia.com/advisories/28526
http://secunia.com/advisories/28607
http://secunia.com/advisories/28749

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