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CVE-2009-4459

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Publication date:
30/12/2009
Last modified:
09/04/2025

Description

Redmine 0.8.7 and earlier uses the title tag before defining the character encoding in a meta tag, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks and inject arbitrary script via UTF-7 encoded values in the title parameter to a new issue page, which may be interpreted as script by Internet Explorer 7 and 8.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.30 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): None

Base Score 2.0
4.30
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:redmine:redmine:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 0.8.7 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:redmine:redmine:0.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:redmine:redmine:0.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:redmine:redmine:0.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:redmine:redmine:0.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:redmine:redmine:0.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:redmine:redmine:0.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:redmine:redmine:0.4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:redmine:redmine:0.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:redmine:redmine:0.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:redmine:redmine:0.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:redmine:redmine:0.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:redmine:redmine:0.6.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:redmine:redmine:0.6.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:redmine:redmine:0.6.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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