CVE-2011-1992
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
4.3
Description
The XSS Filter in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 allows remote attackers to read content from a different (1) domain or (2) zone via a "trial and error" attack, aka "XSS Filter Information Disclosure Vulnerability."
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
Windows Fixed 2 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| r2 | Not affected | — |
| - | Not affected | — |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| microsoft | internet_explorer | 8 | |
References
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA11-347A.html
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2011/ms11-099
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14745
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA11-347A.html
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2011/ms11-099
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14745
CWEs
CWE-79
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.