Vulnerability CVE-2009-4074 - CERT Civis.Net

Vulnerability Name:

CVE-2009-4074 (CCN-54463)

Assigned:

2009-11-21

Published:

2009-11-21

Updated:

2021-07-23

Summary:

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."

CVSS v3 Severity:

5.3 Medium (CCN CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

Exploitability Metrics:	Attack Vector (AV): Network Attack Complexity (AC): Low Privileges Required (PR): None User Interaction (UI): None
Scope:	Scope (S): Unchanged
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): Low Integrity (I): None Availibility (A): None

CVSS v2 Severity:

4.3 Medium (CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
3.2 Low (Temporal CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N/E:U/RL:OF/RC:C)

Exploitability Metrics:	Access Vector (AV): Network Access Complexity (AC): Medium Authentication (Au): None
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): None Integrity (I): Partial Availibility (A): None

4.3 Medium (CCN CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
3.2 Low (CCN Temporal CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N/E:U/RL:OF/RC:C)

Exploitability Metrics:	Access Vector (AV): Network Access Complexity (AC): Medium Athentication (Au): None
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): Partial Integrity (I): None Availibility (A): None

Vulnerability Type:

Vulnerability Consequences:

Obtain Information

References:

Source: MITRE
Type: CNA
CVE-2009-4074

Source: CCN
Type: hackademix Web site
IEs XSS Filter Creates XSS Vulnerabilities

Source: MISC
Type: UNKNOWN
http://hackademix.net/2009/11/21/ies-xss-filter-creates-xss-vulnerabilities/

Source: CCN
Type: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS11-099
Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (2618444)

Source: CCN
Type: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS12-010
Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (2647516)

Source: CCN
Type: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS12-023
Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (2675157)

Source: CCN
Type: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS12-037
Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (2699988)

Source: CCN
Type: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS12-044
Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (2719177)

Source: CCN
Type: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS12-052
Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (2722913)

Source: CCN
Type: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS10-002
Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (978207)

Source: CCN
Type: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS10-018
Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (980182)

Source: CCN
Type: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS10-035
Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (982381)

Source: CCN
Type: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS10-053
Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (2183461)

Source: CCN
Type: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS10-071
Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (2360131)

Source: CCN
Type: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS10-090
Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (2416400)

Source: CCN
Type: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS11-003
Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (2482017)

Source: CCN
Type: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS11-018
Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (2497640)

Source: CCN
Type: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS11-050
Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (2530548)

Source: CCN
Type: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS11-057
Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (2559049)

Source: CCN
Type: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS11-081
Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (2586448)

Source: CCN
Type: Microsoft Web site
Internet Explorer

Source: MISC
Type: UNKNOWN
http://www.owasp.org/images/5/50/OWASP-Italy_Day_IV_Maone.pdf

Source: BID
Type: UNKNOWN
37135

Source: CCN
Type: BID-37135
Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 Cross-Site Scripting Filter Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Source: CCN
Type: BID-37883
RETIRED:Microsoft Internet Explorer Cross Site Scripting Filter Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Source: CCN
Type: The Register Web site
Major IE8 flaw makes 'safe' sites unsafe

Source: MISC
Type: UNKNOWN
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/20/internet_explorer_security_flaw/

Source: MS
Type: UNKNOWN
MS10-002

Source: XF
Type: UNKNOWN
ie-xss-filter-information-disclosure(54463)

Source: OVAL
Type: UNKNOWN
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7715

Vulnerable Configuration:

Configuration 1:

cpe:/a:microsoft:internet_explorer:8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration CCN 1:

cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

OR cpe:/o:microsoft:windows_server_2008:*:*:*:*:*:*:x32:*

OR cpe:/o:microsoft:windows_server_2008:*:sp2:*:*:*:*:itanium:*

AND

cpe:/o:microsoft:windows:xp:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*

OR cpe:/o:microsoft:windows_vista:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

OR cpe:/o:microsoft:windows:server_2003:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*

OR cpe:/o:microsoft:windows:server_2003:sp2:itanium:*:*:*:*:*

OR cpe:/o:microsoft:windows:server_2003:sp2:x64:*:*:*:*:*

OR cpe:/o:microsoft:windows_vista:-:*:x64:*:*:*:*:*

OR cpe:/o:microsoft:windows_xp::sp2:x64:*:professional:*:*:*

OR cpe:/o:microsoft:windows_vista:-:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*

OR cpe:/o:microsoft:windows_vista:-:sp1:x64:*:*:*:*:*

OR cpe:/o:microsoft:windows_server_2008:*:*:*:*:*:*:itanium:*

OR cpe:/o:microsoft:windows_server_2008:*:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*

OR cpe:/o:microsoft:windows:xp:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*

OR cpe:/o:microsoft:windows_vista:-:sp2:x64:*:*:*:*:*

OR cpe:/o:microsoft:windows_vista:-:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*

OR cpe:/o:microsoft:windows_server_2008:*:sp2:*:*:*:*:x32:*

OR cpe:/o:microsoft:windows_server_2008:*:sp2:*:*:*:*:x64:*

OR cpe:/o:microsoft:windows_7:-:-:*:*:ultimate_n:*:x64:*

OR cpe:/o:microsoft:windows_7:-:*:*:*:*:*:x32:*

OR cpe:/o:microsoft:windows_server_2008:r2:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*

OR cpe:/o:microsoft:windows_server_2008:r2:*:*:*:*:*:itanium:*

Denotes that component is vulnerable

Oval Definitions

Definition ID	Class	Title	Last Modified
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7715	V	XSS Filter Script Handling Vulnerability	2014-08-18