Vulnerability in Trustwave Modsecurity
CVE-2009-1903
The 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.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.030 (87.4th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 87th percentile — 87.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.030 · newest: 0.030 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Trustwave Modsecurity
- Fedoraproject Fedora — versions 9, 10
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00487.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- www.osvdb.org/52552 (vdb-entry, Broken Link)
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200907-02.xml (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/34256 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/35687 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/34311 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00529.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php (Broken Link)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/49211 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0703 (Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2009-1903?
- CVE-2009-1903 is a vulnerability in Trustwave Modsecurity. Published 2009-06-03.
- Is CVE-2009-1903 known to be exploited?
- 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.