Cross-domain vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 and 8 allows remote attackers to change the location property of a frame via…

Description

Cross-domain vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 and 8 allows remote attackers to change the location property of a frame via the Object data type, and use a frame from a different domain to observe domain-independent events, as demonstrated by observing onkeydown events with caballero-listener. NOTE: according to Microsoft, this is a duplicate of CVE-2008-2947, possibly a different attack vector.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

25.4% · top 2.0% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.

Weakness

• n/a

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (7)

• http://sirdarckcat.blogspot.com/2008/05/ghosts-for-ie8-and-ie75730.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• 30851 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• ADV-2008-1941 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• VU#516627 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
• http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/cc405107.aspx#EHD (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/ghost-busters/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1348 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2008-2948](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2008-2948.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2008-2948)

Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 09:21 UTC.