XSS in Adobe Flash Player
CVE-2006-5330
CRLF injection vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player plugin 9.0.16 and earlier for Windows, 7.0.63 and earlier for Linux, 7.x before 7.0 r67 for Solaris, and before 9.0.28.0 for Mac OS X, allows remote attackers to modify HTTP headers of client requests and conduct HTTP Request Splitting attacks via CRLF sequences in arguments to the ActionScript functions (1) XML.addRequestHeader and (2) XML.contentType. NOTE: the flexibility of the attack varies depending on the type of web browser being used.
Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.245 (97.8th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 98th percentile — 97.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.231 · newest: 0.245 · change: +0.013
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa06-01.html
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-072A.html (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)
- sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/22467 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Mar/msg00002.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0009.html (vendor-advisory)
- docs.info.apple.com/article.html
- secunia.com/advisories/23324 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29634 (vdb-entry)
- lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Dec/0006.html (vendor-advisory)