National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-3006

Overview

Maxthon Browser 2.5.3.80 UNICODE allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar, via window.open with a relative URI, to show an arbitrary URL on the web site visited by the victim, as demonstrated by a visit to an attacker-controlled web page, which triggers a spoofed login form for the site containing that page.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: XF

Name: maxthon-windowopen-spoofing(53009)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/53009

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6437

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6437

External Source: MISC

Name: http://lostmon.blogspot.com/2009/08/multiple-browsers-fake-url-folder-file.html

Hyperlink:http://lostmon.blogspot.com/2009/08/multiple-browsers-fake-url-folder-file.html

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6437

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6437