CVE-2009-3003

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 10.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-08-28 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: 6, 7, 8

References

http://lostmon.blogspot.com/2009/08/multiple-browsers-fake-url-folder-file.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/36334
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53005
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12817
http://lostmon.blogspot.com/2009/08/multiple-browsers-fake-url-folder-file.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/36334
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53005
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12817

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