CVE-2001-1157 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Baltimore Technologies WEBsweeper 4.0 and 4.02 does not properly filter Javascript from HTML pages, which could allow remote attackers to bypass the filtering via (1) an extra leading < and one or more characters before the SCRIPT tag, or (2) tags using Unicode.

Published: 2002-03-15

Score: 7.5 High

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:baltimore_technologies:websweeper:4.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:baltimore_technologies:websweeper:4.02:::::::*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2001-1138	Baltimore Technologies WEBsweeper 4.0 and 4.02 does not properly filter Javascript from HTML pages, which could allow remote attackers to bypass the filtering via (1) an extra leading < and one or more characters before the SCRIPT tag, or (2) tags using Unicode.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00415.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/203821
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3172
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3173

History

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Subscriptions

Baltimore Technologies Websweeper

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2002-03-15T05:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-08T04:44:07.933Z

Reserved: 2002-03-15T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2001-1157

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2001-08-12T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2001-1157

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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