Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Affecting apache2 package, versions <2.2.6-3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
97.13% (100th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-APACHE2-391803
  • published3 Dec 2007
  • disclosed3 Dec 2007

Introduced: 3 Dec 2007

CVE-2007-6203  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 apache2 to version 2.2.6-3 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream apache2 package and not the apache2 package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

Apache HTTP Server 2.0.x and 2.2.x does not sanitize the HTTP Method specifier header from an HTTP request when it is reflected back in a "413 Request Entity Too Large" error message, which might allow cross-site scripting (XSS) style attacks using web client components that can send arbitrary headers in requests, as demonstrated via an HTTP request containing an invalid Content-length value, a similar issue to CVE-2006-3918.

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