PT-2015-2997 · Microsoft · Internet Explorer+1

Published 2015-12-08 · Updated 2018-10-12 · CVE-2015-6144

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 Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 8 through 11 Microsoft Edge (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is caused by the mishandling of HTML attributes in HTTP responses, allowing remote attackers to bypass a cross-site scripting protection mechanism. This can be exploited by attackers to bypass the XSS filter via unspecified vectors.

Recommendations For Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 8 through 11, update to a version that includes the fix for this issue. For Microsoft Edge, 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

BDU:2016-00201

CVE-2015-6144

Affected Products

Internet Explorer

Edge

References · 9

• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-6144 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-6144 · Security Note
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2015/ms15-125 · Vendor Advisory
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2015/ms15-124 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2016-00201 · Security Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1034315 · Note
• http://technet.microsoft.com/security/bulletin/ms15-124 · Note
• http://technet.microsoft.com/security/bulletin/MS15-125 · Note
• http://technet.microsoft.com/security/bulletin/MS15-124 · Note