CVE-2006-5599

Severity

43%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

48%

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Oracle Application Express (formerly HTML DB) before 2.2.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTML or web script via the WWV_FLOW_ITEM_HELP package. NOTE: it is likely that this issue overlaps one of the Oracle VulnIDs covered by CVE-2006-5351. Oracle has not publicly disputed claims by a reliable researcher that this has been fixed by the October 2006 CPU.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Oracle Application Express (formerly HTML DB) before 2.2.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTML or web script via the WWV_FLOW_ITEM_HELP package. NOTE: it is likely that this issue overlaps one of the Oracle VulnIDs covered by CVE-2006-5351. Oracle has not publicly disputed claims by a reliable researcher that this has been fixed by the October 2006 CPU.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.3. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N).

Overview

First reported 18 years ago

2006-10-28 01:07:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-17 21:43:00

Affected Software

Oracle Application Express 2.2

2.2

References

1792

http://www.oracle.com/technology/deploy/security/critical-patch-updates/cpuoct2006.html

Patch

http://www.red-database-security.com/advisory/oracle_apex_css_wwv_flow_item_help.html

Patch, Vendor Advisory

20061023 Cross-Site-Scripting Vulnerability in Oracle APEX WWV_FLOW_ITEM_HELP

TA06-291A

Patch, US Government Resource

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