CVEvulnerability

CVE-2009-1903

4.3 MEDIUM Published 2009-06-03 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗

Status: Modified
Published: 2009-06-03
Last modified: 2026-06-16
Assigner: [email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected]): 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• trustwave modsecurity (< 2.5.8) • fedoraproject fedora 9 • fedoraproject fedora 10

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/34256 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/34311 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/35687 Third Party Advisory
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200907-02.xml Third Party Advisory
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=667538 Broken Link
http://www.osvdb.org/52552 Broken Link
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34096 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0703 Third Party Advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/49211 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00487.html Third Party Advisory
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00529.html Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/34256 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/34311 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/35687 Third Party Advisory
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200907-02.xml Third Party Advisory
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=667538 Broken Link
http://www.osvdb.org/52552 Broken Link
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34096 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0703 Third Party Advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/49211 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00487.html Third Party Advisory
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00529.html Third Party Advisory