| Name | CVE-2008-2168 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| apache2 (PTS) | buster | 2.4.38-3+deb10u8 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 2.4.38-3+deb10u10 | fixed |
| bullseye | 2.4.56-1~deb11u2 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 2.4.56-1~deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 2.4.57-2 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 2.4.58-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| apache2 | source | etch | 2.2.3-4+etch4 | low | | |
| apache2 | source | (unstable) | 2.2.8-1 | low | | |
Notes
This is really a browser issue. Recent apache versions add a workaround.