CVE-2008-3842

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Aug 27, 2008
Updated: Aug 7, 2024
Reserved: Aug 27, 2008

Description

Request Validation (aka the ValidateRequest filters) in ASP.NET in Microsoft .NET Framework without the MS07-040 update does not properly detect dangerous client input, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, as demonstrated by a query string containing a "</" (less-than slash) sequence.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

http://www.procheckup.com/PDFs/bypassing-dot-NET-ValidateRequest.pdf
4193third-party-advisory
20080821 PR08-20: Bypassing ASP .NET "ValidateRequest" for Script Injection Attacksmailing-list
asp-validaterequest-xss(44741)vdb-entry

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