National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-1252
Original release date:06/16/2011
Last revised:01/27/2012
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the SafeHTML function in the toStaticHTML API in Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 and 8, Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP2, Office SharePoint Server 2010 Gold and SP1, Groove Server 2010 Gold and SP1, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP2, and SharePoint Foundation 2010 Gold and SP1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified strings, aka "toStaticHTML Information Disclosure Vulnerability" or "HTML Sanitization Vulnerability."
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA11-256A
Name: TA11-256A
External Source: MS
Name: MS11-050
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: MS
Name: MS11-074
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12885
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12577
References to Check Content
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12577
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12885
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
Technical Details
- Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) (CWE-79)