CVE-2009-1594

medium

Description

Armorlogic Profense Web Application Firewall before 2.2.22, and 2.4.x before 2.4.4, does not properly implement the "positive model," which allows remote attackers to bypass certain protection mechanisms via a %0A (encoded newline), as demonstrated by a %0A in a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack URL.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50662

http://www.webappsec.org/lists/websecurity/archive/2009-05/msg00040.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35053

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/503649/100/0/threaded

http://resources.enablesecurity.com/advisories/ES-20090500-profense.txt

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2009-05-21

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00436