CVE-2009-4142
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 4.3 · Cross-site scripting (XSS)
4.3CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
The htmlspecialchars function in PHP before 5.2.12 does not properly handle (1) overlong UTF-8 sequences, (2) invalid Shift_JIS sequences, and (3) invalid EUC-JP sequences, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks by placing a crafted byte sequence before a special character.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexity—
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impact—
Availability impactNone
Exploit probability (EPSS)6%
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37821Advisory
- http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=49785
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=127680701405735&w=2
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38648
- http://secunia.com/advisories/40262
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4077
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1023372Exploit