Microsoft Internet Explorer 6/7/8/9/10 cross site scripting

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A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6/7/8/9/10 (Web Browser). It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 10 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving incorrect auto-selection of the Shift JIS encoding, leading to cross-domain scrolling events, aka "Shift JIS Character Encoding Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2013-0015.

The weakness was released 07/09/2013 by Masato Kinugawa as ms13-jul as confirmed bulletin (Technet). The advisory is shared at technet.microsoft.com. The public release was coordinated with Microsoft. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2013-3166 since 04/17/2013. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1059.007 for this issue.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 67212 (MS13-055: Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (2846071)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Windows : Microsoft Bulletins. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 100157 (Microsoft Internet Explorer Multiple Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities (MS13-055)).

Applying the patch MS13-JUL is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at technet.microsoft.com. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (67212). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at 9399, 9400, 9401 and 9402.

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Class: Cross site scripting
CWE: CWE-79 / CWE-74 / CWE-707
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Nessus ID: 67212
Nessus Name: MS13-055: Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (2846071)
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OpenVAS Name: Microsoft Internet Explorer Multiple Vulnerabilities (2846071)
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Vendor: microsoft.com

Advisory: ms13-jul
Researcher: Masato Kinugawa
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2013-3166 (🔍)
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Vulnerability Center: 40385 - [MS13-055] Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 - 10 Incorrect Handling of Shift JIS Encoding Allows XSS Vulnerability, Medium
SecurityFocus: 60960
Secunia: 54060 - Microsoft Internet Explorer Multiple Vulnerabilities, Extremely Critical
OSVDB: 94984 - Microsoft IE Shift JIS Character Encoding XSS

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Created: 07/10/2013 16:32
Updated: 05/18/2021 11:53
Changes: 07/10/2013 16:32 (50), 04/07/2017 12:03 (29), 05/18/2021 11:46 (7), 05/18/2021 11:53 (1)
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Committer: olku

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