CVE-2009-0796: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Status.pm in Apache::Status and Apache2::Status in mod_perl1 and mod_perl2 for the Apache HTTP Server, when…

PriorityP421low2.6CVSS 2.0

AVNACHAuNCNIPAN

EXPLOIT

EPSS

29.64%

98.0th percentile

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Status.pm in Apache::Status and Apache2::Status in mod_perl1 and mod_perl2 for the Apache HTTP Server, when /perl-status is accessible, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the URI.

Affected

3 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
apache	mod_perl	—	—
apache	mod_perl	—	—
debian	libapache2-mod-perl2	< libapache2-mod-perl2 2.0.4-6 (bookworm)	libapache2-mod-perl2 2.0.4-6 (bookworm)

Detection & IOCsextracted from sources · hover to see the quote

urlhttp://www.example.com/perl-status/APR::SockAddr::port/%22%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert(1)%3C/script%3E↗

path/perl-status↗

→Monitor HTTP requests to /perl-status endpoint for URI-encoded XSS payloads (e.g., %22%3E%3Cscript%3E patterns in the URI path) ↗
→The vulnerable endpoint is /perl-status — alert on any external/untrusted access to this path, as it is a non-default configuration that must be explicitly enabled in httpd.conf ↗
→Inspect the URI component of requests to /perl-status for injected HTML/script tags, as the vulnerability is triggered via unsanitized URI input passed through Status.pm ↗

·The vulnerability only exists when /perl-status is explicitly made accessible — default Apache configurations are NOT affected ↗
·Both mod_perl1 (Apache::Status) and mod_perl2 (Apache2::Status) are affected; detection should cover both module variants ↗

CVSS provenance

nvdv2.02.6LOWAV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

osv2.6LOW

vendor_debian2.6LOW

vendor_redhat2.6LOW

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