CVE-2012-0216

2012-04-2200:00:00

ubuntu.com

CVSS2

4.4

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

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

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%

JSON

The default configuration of the apache2 package in Debian GNU/Linux
squeeze before 2.2.16-6+squeeze7, wheezy before 2.2.22-4, and sid before
2.2.22-4, when mod_php or mod_rivet is used, provides example scripts under
the doc/ URI, which might allow local users to conduct cross-site scripting
(XSS) attacks, gain privileges, or obtain sensitive information via vectors
involving localhost HTTP requests to the Apache HTTP Server.

Bugs

<https://launchpad.net/bugs/1026797>

Notes

Author	Note
mdeslaur	fixing this requires a conf file change, which we try not to do in security updates. Marking as ignored since we will not fix this in stable releases. Workaround is simply for the admin to remove the doc directory in the conf files.