CVE-2009-4074
The XSS Filter in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 allows remote attackers to leverage the "response-changing mechanism" to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks against web sites that have no inherent XSS vulnerabilities, related to the details of…
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EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 14.8%, higher than 96% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
Description
The XSS Filter in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 allows remote attackers to leverage the "response-changing mechanism" to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks against web sites that have no inherent XSS vulnerabilities, related to the details of output encoding and improper modification of an HTML attribute, aka "XSS Filter Script Handling Vulnerability."
- CVSS 2.0
- 4.3 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- EPSS
- 14.84% probability · 96th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Affected
- microsoft/internet explorer
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- http://hackademix.net/2009/11/21/ies-xss-filter-creates-xss-vulnerabilities/
- http://www.owasp.org/images/5/50/OWASP-Italy_Day_IV_Maone.pdf
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37135
- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/20/internet_explorer_security_flaw/
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2010/ms10-002
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7715
- http://hackademix.net/2009/11/21/ies-xss-filter-creates-xss-vulnerabilities/
- http://www.owasp.org/images/5/50/OWASP-Italy_Day_IV_Maone.pdf
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37135
- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/20/internet_explorer_security_flaw/
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2010/ms10-002
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7715
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.