CVE-2008-7257
CRLF injection vulnerability in +webvpn+/index.html in WebVPN on Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) 5580 series devices with…
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 11.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 3.9% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
CRLF injection vulnerability in +webvpn+/index.html in WebVPN on Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) 5580 series devices with software before 8.1(2) allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers as demonstrated by a redirect attack involving a %0d%0aLocation%3a sequence in a URI, or conduct HTTP response splitting attacks via unspecified vectors, aka Bug ID CSCsr09163.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it.
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- Cisco Adaptive Security Response - HTTP Response Splitting (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 34200remote, hardwarepublished 25 Jun 2010Verified
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Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 7 days later
· 7 days later
Published
- 14 years later
· 14 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 11.6% · top 3.9% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
6
- 41159 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20100624 [SWRX-2010-001] Cisco ASA HTTP Response Splitting Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/security/asa/asa81/release/notes/asarn812.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1024155 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- cisco-asa-interface-response-splitting(59850) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://www.secureworks.com/ctu/advisories/SWRX-2010-001 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2008-7213 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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