Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Informations
Name CVE-2008-5080 First vendor Publication 2008-12-03
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2023-11-07

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 4.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

awstats.pl in AWStats 6.8 and earlier does not properly remove quote characters, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via the query_string parameter. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2008-3714.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5080

CAPEC : Common Attack Pattern Enumeration & Classification

Id Name
CAPEC-18 Embedding Scripts in Nonscript Elements
CAPEC-19 Embedding Scripts within Scripts
CAPEC-32 Embedding Scripts in HTTP Query Strings
CAPEC-63 Simple Script Injection
CAPEC-85 Client Network Footprinting (using AJAX/XSS)
CAPEC-86 Embedding Script (XSS ) in HTTP Headers
CAPEC-91 XSS in IMG Tags
CAPEC-106 Cross Site Scripting through Log Files
CAPEC-198 Cross-Site Scripting in Error Pages
CAPEC-199 Cross-Site Scripting Using Alternate Syntax
CAPEC-209 Cross-Site Scripting Using MIME Type Mismatch
CAPEC-232 Exploitation of Privilege/Trust
CAPEC-243 Cross-Site Scripting in Attributes
CAPEC-244 Cross-Site Scripting via Encoded URI Schemes
CAPEC-245 Cross-Site Scripting Using Doubled Characters, e.g. %3C%3Cscript
CAPEC-246 Cross-Site Scripting Using Flash
CAPEC-247 Cross-Site Scripting with Masking through Invalid Characters in Identifiers

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-79 Failure to Preserve Web Page Structure ('Cross-site Scripting') (CWE/SANS Top 25)

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17861
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17861
Title: USN-686-1 -- awstats vulnerability
Description: Morgan Todd discovered that AWStats did not correctly strip quotes from certain parameters, allowing for an XSS attack when running as a CGI.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-686-1
CVE-2008-3714
CVE-2008-5080
 Version: 7
Platform(s): Ubuntu 6.06
Ubuntu 7.10
Ubuntu 8.04
Ubuntu 8.10
 Product(s): awstats
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 32

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-10-19 Name : Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:266 (awstats)
File : nvt/mdksa_2009_266.nasl
2009-03-23 Name : Ubuntu Update for awstats vulnerability USN-686-1
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_686_1.nasl
2009-02-16 Name : Fedora Update for awstats FEDORA-2008-10938
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_10938_awstats_fc8.nasl
2009-02-16 Name : Fedora Update for awstats FEDORA-2008-10950
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_10950_awstats_fc10.nasl
2009-02-16 Name : Fedora Update for awstats FEDORA-2008-10962
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_10962_awstats_fc9.nasl
2009-01-07 Name : FreeBSD Ports: awstats
File : nvt/freebsd_awstats3.nasl
2008-12-09 Name : AWStats awstats.pl XSS Vulnerability - Dec08
File : nvt/gb_awstats_xss_vuln.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
47536 AWStats awstats.pl URL XSS

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2009-04-23 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2008-10950.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-04-23 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-686-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-01-05 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_27d78386d35f11ddb800001b77d09812.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-12-09 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2008-10938.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-12-09 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2008-10962.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
CONFIRM https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=474396
MISC http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=495432#21
SECUNIA http://secunia.com/advisories/33002
UBUNTU http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-686-1
XF https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47116

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