CVE-2008-7257

Asa 5580 vulnerability

CVSS

4.3

EPSS

11.6%

EPSS pct

96th

Exploited

No known

CRLF injection vulnerability in +webvpn+/index.html in WebVPN on Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) 5580 series devices with software before 8.1(2) allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers as demonstrated by a redirect attack involving a %0d%0aLocation%3a sequence in a URI, or conduct HTTP response splitting attacks via unspecified vectors, aka Bug ID CSCsr09163.

Affected vendor

Cisco

Affected product

Asa 5580

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation

Published

2010-06-29

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to integrity.

Its EPSS score of 11.6% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 96% of all scored CVEs.

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