CVE-2009-1594

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.

Affected products

• armorlogic / profense_web_application_firewall2.2.21
• armorlogic / profense_web_application_firewall2.4 – 2.4

References

• MISChttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50662
• VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://resources.enablesecurity.com/advisories/ES-20090500-profense.txt
• MISChttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35053
• MISChttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/503649/100/0/threaded
• MISChttp://www.webappsec.org/lists/websecurity/archive/2009-05/msg00040.html