National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2015-0072
Original release date: 02/07/2015
Last revised: 02/09/2015
Source: US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 and 11 allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving an IFRAME element that triggers a redirect, a second IFRAME element that does not trigger a redirect, and an eval of a WindowProxy object, aka “Universal XSS (UXSS).”
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore: 2.9
Exploitability Subscore: 8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type: Allows unauthorized modification
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External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2879372/dangerous-ie-vulnerability-opens-door-to-powerful-phishing-attacks.html
External Source: MISC
Name: http://community.websense.com/blogs/securitylabs/archive/2015/02/05/another-day-another-zero-day-internet-explorer-s-turn-cve-2015-0072.aspx
External Source: FULLDISC
Name: 20150131 Major Internet Explorer Vulnerability – NOT Patched
External Source: MISC
Name: http://innerht.ml/blog/ie-uxss.html
External Source: MISC
Name: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/02/04/internet-explorer-has-a-cross-site-scripting-zero-day-bug/
Vulnerable software and versions
+ Configuration 1
+ OR
* cpe:/a:microsoft:internet_explorer:10
* cpe:/a:microsoft:internet_explorer:11:-
Technical Details
- Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) (CWE-79)
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