CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-1962
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2011-08-10
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 9 does not properly handle unspecified character sequences, which allows remote attackers to read content from a different (1) domain or (2) zone via a crafted web site that triggers "inactive filtering," aka "Shift JIS Character Encoding Vulnerability."
Affected configurations
• microsoft internet explorer 6
• microsoft internet explorer 7
• microsoft internet explorer 8
• microsoft internet explorer 9
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2011/ms11-057 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12657 Tool Signature
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2011/ms11-057 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12657 Tool Signature