CVE-2007-3640 (GCVE-0-2007-3640)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-07-10 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 14:21
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Summary
Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR, aka Apollo) allows context-dependent attackers to modify arbitrary files within an executing .air file (compiled AIR application) and perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, as demonstrated by an application that modifies an HTML file inside itself via JavaScript that uses an APPEND open operation and the writeUTFBytes function. NOTE: this may be an intended consequence of the AIR permission model; if so, then perhaps this issue should not be included in CVE.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 29/100 over 2230 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
http://osvdb.org/41473 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/472733/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://osvdb.org/41474 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2882 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
Date Public
2007-07-03 00:00
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