CVE-2006-5599

Summary

CVECVE-2006-5599
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2006-10-28 01:07:00 UTC
Updated2018-10-17 21:43:00 UTC
DescriptionCross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Oracle Application Express (formerly HTML DB) before 2.2.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTML or web script via the WWV_FLOW_ITEM_HELP package. NOTE: it is likely that this issue overlaps one of the Oracle VulnIDs covered by CVE-2006-5351. Oracle has not publicly disputed claims by a reliable researcher that this has been fixed by the October 2006 CPU.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Oracle Apex 2.2 All All All
Application Oracle Apex 2.2 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Cross-Site-Scripting Vulnerability in Oracle APEX WWV_FLOW_ITEM_HELP - CXSecurity.com SREASON securityreason.com
SecurityFocus BUGTRAQ www.securityfocus.com
www.red-database-security.com/advisory/oracle_apex_css_wwv_flow_item_help.html MISC www.red-database-security.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
Page not found | Oracle MISC www.oracle.com Patch
US-CERT Technical Cyber Security Alert TA06-291A -- Oracle Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities CERT www.us-cert.gov Patch, US Government Resource
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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