XSS in Adobe Flex
CVE-2008-2640
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the Flex 3 History Management feature in Adobe Flex 3.0.1 SDK and Flex Builder 3, and generated applications, allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the anchor identifier to (1) client-side-detection-with-history/history/historyFrame.html, (2) express-installation-with-history/history/historyFrame.html, or (3) no-player-detection-with-history/history/historyFrame.html in templates/html-templates/. NOTE: Firefox 2.0 and possibly other browsers prevent exploitation.
Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)
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: 0.028 (85.8th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 86th percentile — 85.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.028 · newest: 0.028 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Adobe Flex — versions 3.0.1
- Adobe Flex Builder — versions 3
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb08-14.html (Patch)
- securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43150 (vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/30746 (Patch, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1862 (vdb-entry)
- blog.watchfire.com/wfblog/2008/06/javascript-code.html (Exploit)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/29778 (Patch, vdb-entry)