CVE-2005-4089

Severity

71%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

115%

Microsoft Internet Explorer allows remote attackers to bypass cross-domain security restrictions and obtain sensitive information by using the @import directive to download files from other domains that are not valid Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) files, as demonstrated using Google Desktop, aka "CSSXSS" and "CSS Cross-Domain Information Disclosure Vulnerability."

Microsoft Internet Explorer allows remote attackers to bypass cross-domain security restrictions and obtain sensitive information by using the @import directive to download files from other domains that are not valid Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) files, as demonstrated using Google Desktop, aka "CSSXSS" and "CSS Cross-Domain Information Disclosure Vulnerability."

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.1. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N).

Overview

First reported 19 years ago

2005-12-08 11:03:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-12 21:37:00

Affected Software

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0

6.0

References

17564

Vendor Advisory

1016291

http://www.hacker.co.il/security/ie/css_import.html

Exploit, Vendor Advisory

15660

Exploit

ADV-2005-2804

Vendor Advisory

ADV-2006-2319

Vendor Advisory

MS06-021

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1556

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1800

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1838

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1914

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1977

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1985

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