CVE-2008-2949

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 20.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-06-30 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Cross-domain vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and 7 allows remote attackers to change the location property of a frame via the String data type, and use a frame from a different domain to observe domain-independent events, as demonstrated by observing onkeydown events with caballero-listener. NOTE: according to Microsoft, this is a duplicate of CVE-2008-2947, possibly a different attack vector.

Affected products

Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: 6, 7

References

http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1348
http://sirdarckcat.blogspot.com/2008/05/browsers-ghost-busters.html
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/cc405107.aspx#EHD
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/516627
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1941/references
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1348
http://sirdarckcat.blogspot.com/2008/05/browsers-ghost-busters.html
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/cc405107.aspx#EHD
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/516627
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1941/references

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