CVE-2007-5158

Severity

43%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

48%

The focus handling for the onkeydown event in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 allows remote attackers to change field focus and copy keystrokes via a certain use of a JavaScript htmlFor attribute, as demonstrated by changing focus from a textarea to a file upload field, a related issue to CVE-2007-3511.

The focus handling for the onkeydown event in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 allows remote attackers to change field focus and copy keystrokes via a certain use of a JavaScript htmlFor attribute, as demonstrated by changing focus from a textarea to a file upload field, a related issue to CVE-2007-3511.

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

Overview

First reported 17 years ago

2007-10-01 05:17:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-29 01:33:00

Affected Software

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0

6.0

References

41382

27007

Vendor Advisory

http://www.0x000000.com/index.php?i=437

25836

ie-onkeydown-information-disclosure(36848)

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