Vulnerability Details 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 output encoding and improper modification of an HTML attribute, aka "XSS Filter Script Handling Vulnerability."
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.197
EPSS Ranking 95.1%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v2 Score 4.3
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
Products affected by CVE-2009-4074
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cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:8