Vulnerability in Oracle Apex
CVE-2006-5599
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.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.017 (76.4th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 76th percentile — 76.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.017 · newest: 0.017 · change: +0.000
Affected products
- Oracle Apex — versions 2.2
References
- securityreason.com/securityalert/1792 (third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/449500/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- www.red-database-security.com/advisory/oracle_apex_css_wwv_flow_item_help.html (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-291A.html (US Government Resource, Patch, third-party-advisory)
- www.oracle.com/technology/deploy/security/critical-patch-updates/cpuoct2006.html (Patch)