CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-2948
6.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-06-30
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Description
Cross-domain vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 and 8 allows remote attackers to change the location property of a frame via the Object data type, and use a frame from a different domain to observe domain-independent events, as demonstrated by observing onkeydown events with caballero-listener. NOTE: according to Microsoft, this is a duplicate of CVE-2008-2947, possibly a different attack vector.
Affected configurations
• microsoft internet explorer 7
• microsoft internet explorer 8
References
- http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1348 blogs.zdnet.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30851 Vendor Advisory
- http://sirdarckcat.blogspot.com/2008/05/ghosts-for-ie8-and-ie75730.html sirdarckcat.blogspot.com
- http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/cc405107.aspx#EHD technet.microsoft.com
- http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/ghost-busters/ www.gnucitizen.org
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/516627 US Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1941/references www.vupen.com
- http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1348 blogs.zdnet.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30851 Vendor Advisory
- http://sirdarckcat.blogspot.com/2008/05/ghosts-for-ie8-and-ie75730.html sirdarckcat.blogspot.com
- http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/cc405107.aspx#EHD technet.microsoft.com
- http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/ghost-busters/ www.gnucitizen.org
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/516627 US Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1941/references www.vupen.com