CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-5599

4.3 MEDIUM Published 2006-10-28 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗

Status: Modified
Published: 2006-10-28
Last modified: 2026-06-16
Assigner: [email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected]): 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Oracle Application Express (formerly HTML DB) before 2.2.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTML or web script via the WWV_FLOW_ITEM_HELP package. NOTE: it is likely that this issue overlaps one of the Oracle VulnIDs covered by CVE-2006-5351. Oracle has not publicly disputed claims by a reliable researcher that this has been fixed by the October 2006 CPU.

Affected configurations

• oracle apex 2.2

References

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1792 securityreason.com
http://www.oracle.com/technology/deploy/security/critical-patch-updates/cpuoct2006.html Patch
http://www.red-database-security.com/advisory/oracle_apex_css_wwv_flow_item_help.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/449500/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-291A.html Patch, US Government Resource
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1792 securityreason.com
http://www.oracle.com/technology/deploy/security/critical-patch-updates/cpuoct2006.html Patch
http://www.red-database-security.com/advisory/oracle_apex_css_wwv_flow_item_help.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/449500/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-291A.html Patch, US Government Resource