CVE-2008-2162 — Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in SonicWall Email Security 6.1.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the Host header in a request to a non-existent web page, which is not properly sanitized in an error page

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Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in SonicWall Email Security 6.1.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the Host header in a request to a non-existent web page, which is not properly sanitized in an error page

Published May 12, 2008

4.3

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 1.45%

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in SonicWall Email Security 6.1.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the Host header in a request to a non-existent web page, which is not properly sanitized in an error page.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.45% 0.01452

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.01452

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (9 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	1.45% (0.01452)	72.44th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.45% (0.01452)	69.88th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.13% (0.00125)	29.18th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.22% (0.00222)	61.45th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jan 24, 2024	0.19% (0.00195)	57.48th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.19% (0.00195)	55.48th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.92% (0.01917)	78.00th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.92% (0.01917)	76.01th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.92% (0.01917)	55.17th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-79

Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

References (4)

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2008-05/0226.html
mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCExploit
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29107
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019999
vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKExploit
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42283
vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Link	Providers	Tags
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2008-05/0226.html		mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCExploit
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29107		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019999		vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKExploit
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42283		vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published May 12, 2008

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved May 12, 2008

Link CVE-2008-2162

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2008-2162

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2008-2162