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CVE-2002-1168

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in IBM Web Traffic Express Caching Proxy Server 3.6 and 4.x before 4.0.1.26 allows remote attackers to execute script as other users via an HTTP request that contains an Location: header with a "%0a%0d" (CRLF) sequence, which echoes the Location as an HTTP header in the server response.

Published: Nov 4, 2002 Modified: Jun 16, 2026

CVSS Metrics

Affected Products (2)

Vendor Product Version
ibm websphere_caching_proxy_server 3.6
ibm websphere_caching_proxy_server 4.0

GitHub Security Advisory GHSA-8f3x-2hfc-r4x5

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in IBM Web Traffic Express Caching Proxy Server 3.6 and...

Risk Scores

CVSS Score 6.8 / 10
EPSS Score 1.64%

Top 26% most likely to be exploited

Threat Score 27.7 / 100

Data Sources

NVD EPSS GitHub