CVE-2009-4074

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."

References

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7715

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2010/ms10-002

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/20/internet_explorer_security_flaw/

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37135

http://www.owasp.org/images/5/50/OWASP-Italy_Day_IV_Maone.pdf

http://hackademix.net/2009/11/21/ies-xss-filter-creates-xss-vulnerabilities/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3