Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU40775

Cross-site scripting in Debian Linux - CVE-2015-1264

Published: May 20, 2015 / Updated: August 9, 2020

Vulnerability identifier: #VU40775

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2015-1264

CWE-ID: CWE-79

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data. The vulnerability allows user-assisted remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via crafted data that is improperly handled by the Bookmarks feature.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.

Affected software

Debian Linux

How to mitigate CVE-2015-1264

Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.

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