PT-2009-3059 · Microsoft · Internet Explorer

Patnaik · Published 2009-02-03 · Updated 2017-08-08 · CVE-2009-0404

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions htmLawed versions 1.1.3 through 1.1.4

Description The issue allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via invalid Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) expressions in the style attribute, which is processed by Internet Explorer 7. This is due to multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities.

Recommendations For versions 1.1.3 and 1.1.4, consider disabling the processing of CSS expressions in the style attribute as a temporary workaround until a patch is available. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2009-0404

Affected Products

Internet Explorer

References · 9

• http://bioinformatics.org/phplabware/forum/viewtopic.php?id=85 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33655 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-0404 · Security Note
• http://freshmeat.net/projects/htmlawed/?branch_id=74760&release_id=293026 · Note
• http://freshmeat.net/projects/htmlawed/?branch_id=74760&release_id=293090 · Note
• http://bioinformatics.org/phplabware/internal_utilities/htmLawed/htmLawed_README.htm#s4.3 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/33507 · Note
• http://osvdb.org/51650 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/48333 · Note