PT-2007-5385 · Open Source Matters · Joomla!

Published 2007-08-08 · Updated 2022-05-01 · CVE-2007-4190

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Joomla! versions prior to 1.0.13

Description The issue allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers and probably conduct HTTP response splitting attacks via CRLF sequences in the url parameter. This can be leveraged for cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.0.13, update to version 1.0.13 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the url parameter in affected API endpoints until a patch is available.

Fix

Special Elements Injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-93

CWE-74

Related Identifiers

CVE-2007-4190

GHSA-H22Q-G2C7-2JWJ

Affected Products

Joomla!

References · 10

• http://secunia.com/advisories/26239 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-h22q-g2c7-2jwj · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-4190 · Security Note
• http://joomla.org/content/view/3677/1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms · Note
• https://web.archive.org/web/20071001212343/http://joomla.org/content/view/3677/1 · Note
• http://osvdb.org/38739 · Note
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2719 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-4190 · Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/21753 · Telegram Post