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National Vulnerability Database

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NVD

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2008-2168 Detail

Current 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.


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Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (05/14/2008)

This is actually a flaw in browsers that do not derive the response character set as required by RFC 2616. This does not affect the default configuration of Apache httpd in Red Hat products and will only affect customers who have removed the "AddDefaultCharset" directive. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2008-2168

Official Statement from Apache (05/14/2008)

The Apache security team state that this issue is due to web browsers that are violating RFC2616 and is not a flaw in the Apache HTTPD Server.

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01539432 CVE, MITRE
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=124654546101607&w=2 CVE, MITRE
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=125631037611762&w=2 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/31651 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/34219 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/35650 CVE, MITRE
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3889 CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/491862/100/0/threaded CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/491901/100/0/threaded CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/491930/100/0/threaded CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/491967/100/0/threaded CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29112 CVE, MITRE Exploit 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-731-1 CVE, MITRE
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42303 CVE, MITRE
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5143 CVE, MITRE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2008-2168
NVD Published Date:
05/13/2008
NVD Last Modified:
06/16/2026
Source:
MITRE