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Vulnerability details: VCID-6ahp-sh7m-vkbq
Vulnerability ID VCID-6ahp-sh7m-vkbq
Aliases CVE-2008-2168
Summary Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Apache 2.2.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via UTF-7 encoded URLs that are not properly handled when displaying the 403 Forbidden error page.
Status Published
Exploitability 2.0
Weighted Severity 0.5
Risk 1.0
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
System Score Found at
epss 0.54708 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2008-2168
epss 0.54708 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2008-2168
epss 0.54708 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2008-2168
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2008-2168.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2008-2168
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2168
446352 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446352
CVE-2008-2168;OSVDB-45420 Exploit https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb/-/blob/main/exploits/windows/remote/31759.txt
CVE-2008-2168;OSVDB-45420 Exploit https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29112/info
USN-731-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/731-1/
Data source Exploit-DB
Date added May 8, 2008
Description Microsoft Internet Explorer 2 - UTF-7 HTTP Response Handling
Ransomware campaign use Known
Source publication date May 8, 2008
Exploit type remote
Platform windows
Source update date Feb. 19, 2014
Source URL https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29112/info
There are no known vectors.
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.98079
EPSS Score 0.54708
Published At June 4, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-06-04T16:27:42.662995+00:00 Debian Importer Import https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/data/json 38.6.0