CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-7312
5.0 MEDIUM
Official page ↗
- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-08-23
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
The Filtering Service in Websense Enterprise 5.2 through 6.3 does not consider the IP address during URL categorization, which makes it easier for remote attackers to bypass filtering via an HTTP request, as demonstrated by a request to a compromised server associated with a specific IP address.
Affected configurations
• websense enterprise 5.2
• websense enterprise 5.5
• websense enterprise 6.1
• websense enterprise 6.2
• websense enterprise 6.3
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://www.websense.com/support/article/t-kbarticle/Why-doesn-t-my-Websense-installation-categorize-URLs-and-Permit-Block-in-accordance-with-the-Site-Lookup-Tool-s-categorization Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78299 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://www.websense.com/support/article/t-kbarticle/Why-doesn-t-my-Websense-installation-categorize-URLs-and-Permit-Block-in-accordance-with-the-Site-Lookup-Tool-s-categorization Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78299 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com