CVE-2008-5080

Published: 3 December 2008

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.

Priority

Status

Package	Release	Status
awstats Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	upstream	Released (6.7.dfsg-5.1)
	dapper	Released (6.5-1ubuntu1.3)
	gutsy	Released (6.6+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1)
	hardy	Released (6.7.dfsg-1ubuntu0.1)
	intrepid	Released (6.7.dfsg-5ubuntu0.1)

References

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5080
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-686-1
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

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