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."

Score

CVSS 2.0 4.3 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2009-11-25

Last modified

2024-08-07

Affected products

• Internet Explorer (Microsoft)

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