CVE-2008-7271

Summary

CVECVE-2008-7271
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2011-01-13 19:00:00 UTC
Updated2011-07-19 04:00:00 UTC
DescriptionMultiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the Help Contents web application (aka the Help Server) in Eclipse IDE, possibly 3.3.2, allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) the searchWord parameter to help/advanced/searchView.jsp or (2) the workingSet parameter in an add action to help/advanced/workingSetManager.jsp, a different issue than CVE-2010-4647.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-79

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Eclipse Eclipse Ide All All All All
Application Eclipse Eclipse Ide 3.3.2 All All All
Application Eclipse Eclipse Ide All All All All
Application Eclipse Eclipse Ide 3.3.2 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Farfromr00tin: Eclipse Local Web Server Exploitation MISC r00tin.blogspot.com Exploit
Bug 223539 – [Webapp][Security] Vulnerability discovered in Eclipse. MISC bugs.eclipse.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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