CVE-2008-2168
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3EPSS 54.9%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-79
- EPSS score
- 54.9% (99th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-2165)
- Published
- May 13, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-2165 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- apache / http server
- apache / http server
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- apache / http server
- apache / http server
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- apache / http server
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(Exploit)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-731-1
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42303
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5143
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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