CVE-2001-0669 (GCVE-0-2001-0669)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2001-10-12 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 04:30
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Summary
Various Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) including (1) Cisco Secure Intrusion Detection System, (2) Cisco Catalyst 6000 Intrusion Detection System Module, (3) Dragon Sensor 4.x, (4) Snort before 1.8.1, (5) ISS RealSecure Network Sensor 5.x and 6.x before XPU 3.2, and (6) ISS RealSecure Server Sensor 5.5 and 6.0 for Windows, allow remote attackers to evade detection of HTTP attacks via non-standard "%u" Unicode encoding of ASCII characters in the requested URL.
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References
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/548515 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VN
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3292 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-intrus… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CISCO
http://xforce.iss.net/alerts/advise95.php third-party-advisoryx_refsource_ISS
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=99972950200602&w=2 mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
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