CVE-2008-2168

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 54.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-05-13 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Apache 2.2.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via UTF-7 encoded URLs that are not properly handled when displaying the 403 Forbidden error page.

Affected products

Apache HTTP Server: 2.0, 2.0.9, 2.0.28, 2.0.28-beta, 2.0.32, 2.0.32-beta (+42)

References

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01539432
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=124654546101607&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=125631037611762&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/31651
http://secunia.com/advisories/34219
http://secunia.com/advisories/35650
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3889
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/491862/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/491901/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/491930/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/491967/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29112

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