CVE-2011-2191

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2011-10-07 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Cherokee-admin in Cherokee before 1.2.99 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that insert cross-site scripting (XSS) sequences, as demonstrated by a crafted nickname field to vserver/apply.

Affected products

Cherokee-Project Cherokee: through 1.2.98; 0.3.0, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, 0.4.2, 0.4.3, 0.4.4 (+130)

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/066222.html
http://osvdb.org/72693
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/Jun/0
http://www.cherokee-project.com/download/LATEST_is_1.2.99/cherokee-1.2.99.tar.gz
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/02/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/03/6
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/06/22
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/49772
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=713304
https://launchpad.net/bugs/784632
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/066222.html
http://osvdb.org/72693

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