CVE-2008-0005: Apache HTTP Server

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 14.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

mod_proxy_ftp in Apache 2.2.x before 2.2.7-dev, 2.0.x before 2.0.62-dev, and 1.3.x before 1.3.40-dev does not define a charset, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks using UTF-7 encoding.

Affected products

• Apache HTTP Server: from 2.0.35, before 2.0.63 (fixed in 2.0.63); from 2.2.0, before 2.2.8 (fixed in 2.2.8)
• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 6.06 only; version 6.10 only; version 7.04 only; version 7.10 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 7 only; version 8 only

Published 2008-01-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.