CVE-2009-1903

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Summary

CVECVE-2009-1903
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2009-06-03 17:00:00 UTC
Updated2021-02-14 02:55:00 UTC
DescriptionThe PDF XSS protection feature in ModSecurity before 2.5.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (Apache httpd crash) via a request for a PDF file that does not use the GET method.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 10 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 9 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 10 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 9 All All All
Application Trustwave Modsecurity All All All All
Application Trustwave Modsecurity All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Webmail - OVH VUPEN www.vupen.com Third Party Advisory
IBM X-Force Exchange XF exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
ModSecurity Two Denial of Service Vulnerabilities - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information - Secunia.com SECUNIA secunia.com Third Party Advisory
Gentoo update for mod_security - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information - Secunia.com SECUNIA secunia.com Third Party Advisory
52552 OSVDB www.osvdb.org Broken Link
SourceForge.net: ModSecurity: Files CONFIRM sourceforge.net Broken Link
[SECURITY] Fedora 10 Update: mod_security-2.5.9-1.fc10 FEDORA www.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
Fedora update for mod_security - Secunia.com SECUNIA secunia.com Third Party Advisory
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- ModSecurity: Denial of Service GENTOO security.gentoo.org Third Party Advisory
ModSecurity Multiple Remote Denial of Service Vulnerabilities BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
[SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: mod_security-2.5.9-1.fc9 FEDORA www.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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