CVE-2007-2688 describes a vulnerability in Cisco Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) and IOS with Firewall/IPS Feature Set, where improper handling of full-width and half-width Unicode character encodings allows remote attackers to evade detection of HTTP traffic. With a CVSS score of 7.8, this vulnerability is considered highly severe, requiring no authentication and having a low attack complexity, potentially leading to a complete compromise of availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:cisco:ips_sensor_software:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.0\(1\)CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:cisco:ips_sensor_software:5.0\(1\):*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.0\(2\)CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:cisco:ips_sensor_software:5.0\(2\):*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.0\(6\)p1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:cisco:ips_sensor_software:5.0\(6\)p1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.1\(1\)CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:cisco:ips_sensor_software:5.1\(1\):*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
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