CVE-2006-6985 (GCVE-0-2006-6985)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-02-09 01:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 20:50
VLAI
Summary
Cross-domain vulnerability in Maxthon 1.5.6 build 42 allows remote attackers to access restricted information from other domains via an object tag with a data parameter that references a link on the attacker's originating site that specifies a Location HTTP header that references the target site, which then makes that content available through the outerHTML attribute of the object, a similar vulnerability to CVE-2006-3280.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 28/100 over 2263 records in the last 180 days details
References
Date Public
2006-06-27 00:00
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