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CVE-2009-3003
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 8 allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar, via window.open with a relative URI, to show an…
Medium4.3EPSS 10.6%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 8 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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 15 years later
· 15 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 10.6% · top 4.2% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (4)
- ie-windowopen-spoofing(53005) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 36334 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://lostmon.blogspot.com/2009/08/multiple-browsers-fake-url-folder-file.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12817 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
Sources
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- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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