CVE Database


Impact: Low
Public: 2008-01-22
Bugzilla: 879292: CVE-2008-0456 httpd: mod_negotiation CRLF injection via untrusted file names in directories with MultiViews enabled
IAVA: 2015-A-0149


The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

CRLF injection vulnerability in the mod_negotiation module in the Apache HTTP Server 2.2.6 and earlier in the 2.2.x series, 2.0.61 and earlier in the 2.0.x series, and 1.3.39 and earlier in the 1.3.x series allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary HTTP headers and conduct HTTP response splitting attacks by uploading a file with a multi-line name containing HTTP header sequences and a file extension, which leads to injection within a (1) "406 Not Acceptable" or (2) "300 Multiple Choices" HTTP response when the extension is omitted in a request for the file.

Find out more about CVE-2008-0456 from the MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score: 2.6
Base Metrics: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector: Network
Access Complexity: High
Authentication: None
Confidentiality Impact: None
Integrity Impact: Partial
Availability Impact: None


Red Hat security errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5 (httpd) RHSA-2013:0130 January 08, 2013

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