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Cross-domain vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published May 1, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 31, 2023

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

Cross-domain vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 and 8 allows remote attackers to change the location property of a frame via the Object data type, and use a frame from a different domain to observe domain-independent events, as demonstrated by observing onkeydown events with caballero-listener. NOTE: according to Microsoft, this is a duplicate of CVE-2008-2947, possibly a different attack vector.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jun 30, 2008
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 1, 2022
Last updated Jan 31, 2023

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

8.536%
(95th percentile)

Weaknesses

No CWEs

CVE ID

CVE-2008-2948

GHSA ID

GHSA-c5jv-q5g8-55g4

Source code

No known source code

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