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CVE-2009-3003 (GCVE-0-2009-3003)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-08-28 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 06:14
VLAI
Summary
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 8 allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar, via window.open with a relative URI, to show an arbitrary URL on the web site visited by the victim, as demonstrated by a visit to an attacker-controlled web page, which triggers a spoofed login form for the site containing that page.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://secunia.com/advisories/36334 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://lostmon.blogspot.com/2009/08/multiple-brow… x_refsource_MISC
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def… vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
Date Public
2009-08-15 00:00
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