PT-2010-1683 · Fredck · Fckeditor.Java

Mosipov · Published 2010-05-26 · Updated 2017-08-17 · CVE-2009-4875

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions FCKeditor.Java version 2.4

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in an infinite loop. This can be achieved by sending a malformed request parameter that contains ctrl characters.

Recommendations For FCKeditor.Java version 2.4, consider restricting or validating user input to prevent the inclusion of ctrl characters in request parameters as a temporary workaround until a patch is available.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2009-4875

Affected Products

Fckeditor.Java

References · 8

• http://secunia.com/advisories/35870 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-4875 · Security Note
• http://java.fckeditor.net/changes-report.html#a2.4.2 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51738 · Note
• http://osvdb.org/56060 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/35709 · Note
• http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=697258 · Note
• http://dev.fckeditor.net/ticket/3902 · Note