4.3 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
8.2 High
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.005 Low
EPSS
Percentile
77.0%
Internet Explorer is prone to a cross-site scripting (XSS)
vulnerability.
This VT has been replaced by OID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.901097.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.900898");
script_version("2023-06-27T05:05:30+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2023-06-27 05:05:30 +0000 (Tue, 27 Jun 2023)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2009-11-30 15:32:46 +0100 (Mon, 30 Nov 2009)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"4.3");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N");
script_cve_id("CVE-2009-4074");
script_name("Microsoft Internet Explorer 'XSS Filter' XSS Vulnerabilities (Nov 2009)");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.owasp.org/images/5/50/OWASP-Italy_Day_IV_Maone.pdf");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37135");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/20/internet_explorer_security_flaw/");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://hackademix.net/2009/11/21/ies-xss-filter-creates-xss-vulnerabilities/");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2009 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Windows");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation will allow attackers to conduct cross-site
scripting attacks on the affected system.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Microsoft Internet Explorer version 8.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The XSS Filter used in 'response-changing mechanism' to conduct
XSS attacks against web sites that have no inherent XSS vulnerabilities, related
to the details of output encoding.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"No known solution was made available for at least one year since the disclosure
of this vulnerability. Likely none will be provided anymore. General solution options are to upgrade to a newer
release, disable respective features, remove the product or replace the product by another one.");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Internet Explorer is prone to a cross-site scripting (XSS)
vulnerability.
This VT has been replaced by OID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.901097.");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"registry");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"WillNotFix");
script_tag(name:"deprecated", value:TRUE);
exit(0);
}
exit(66); ## This VT is deprecated as addressed in secpod_ms10-002.nasl