CVE-2009-4459

NameCVE-2009-4459
DescriptionRedmine 0.8.7 and earlier uses the title tag before defining the character encoding in a meta tag, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks and inject arbitrary script via UTF-7 encoded values in the title parameter to a new issue page, which may be interpreted as script by Internet Explorer 7 and 8.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs563940

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
redmine (PTS)bookworm, bookworm (security)5.0.4-5+deb12u1fixed
sid5.0.4-7fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
redminesource(unstable)0.9.1-1563940

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