National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-1894

Overview

The MHTML protocol handler in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP1 and SP2, Windows Server 2008 Gold, SP2, R2, and R2 SP1, and Windows 7 Gold and SP1 does not properly handle a MIME format in a request for embedded content in an HTML document, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a crafted EMBED element in a web page that is visited in Internet Explorer, aka "MHTML Mime-Formatted Request Vulnerability."

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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External Source: MS

Name: MS11-037

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS11-037.mspx

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1025655

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025655

External Source: BID

Name: 48205

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48205

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12494

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12494

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12494

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

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12494