CVE-2008-0717

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-02-12 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Caching Proxy (CP) 5.1 through 6.1 in IBM WebSphere Edge Server, when CGI mapping rules are enabled, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors that trigger injection into an error response.

Affected products

IBM Websphere Edge Server: 5.1, 5.1.1, 6.0, 6.0.1, 6.0.2, 6.1

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/28785
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21294776
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27665
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019315
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0446
http://secunia.com/advisories/28785
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21294776
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27665
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019315
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0446

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