Vulnerability CVE-2012-1858
Published: 2012-06-12   Modified: 2012-06-13

Description:
The toStaticHTML API (aka the SafeHTML component) in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 and 9, Communicator 2007 R2, and Lync 2010 and 2010 Attendee does not properly handle event attributes and script, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a crafted HTML document, aka "HTML Sanitization Vulnerability."

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Low
IE9 SharePoint Lync: toStaticHTML HTML Sanitizing Bypass
Adi Cohen
12.07.2012

Type:

CWE-200

 (Information Exposure)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
None
Affected software
Microsoft -> IE 
Microsoft -> LYNC 
Microsoft -> Office communicator 

 References:
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA12-164A.html
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA12-192A.html
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2012/ms12-037
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2012/ms12-039
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2012/ms12-050
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15530
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