THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2004-2383
MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2004-2383

Ie vulnerability

CVSS
5.1
EPSS
20.0%
EPSS pct
97th
Exploited
No known
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 through 6.0 allows remote attackers to bypass cross-frame scripting restrictions and capture keyboard events from other domains via an HTML document with Javascript that is outside a frameset that includes the target domain, then forcing the frameset to maintain focus. NOTE: the discloser claimed that the vendor does not categorize this as a vulnerability, but it can be used in a spoofing scenario; the discloser provides alternate scenarios. Spoofing scenarios are currently included in CVE.
Affected vendor
Microsoft
Affected product
Ie
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Published
2004-12-31

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, high attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 20.0% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2004-2383

  • Confirm whether Microsoft Ie is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2004-2383.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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