CVE-2008-7271

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2008-04-24
CWE:
CWE-79
Bugzilla:
670944: CVE-2008-7271 eclipse: Help Content web application vulnerable to multiple XSS flaws

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the Help Contents web application (aka the Help Server) in Eclipse IDE, possibly 3.3.2, allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) the searchWord parameter to help/advanced/searchView.jsp or (2) the workingSet parameter in an add action to help/advanced/workingSetManager.jsp, a different issue than CVE-2010-4647.

Find out more about CVE-2008-7271 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 2.6
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity High
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact None

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 eclipse Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 eclipse Will not fix
Red Hat Certificate System 7.3 for 4AS eclipse Will not fix
Red Hat Certificate System 7.2 for 4AS eclipse Will not fix

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