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CVE-2006-5599

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Oracle Application Express (formerly HTML DB) before 2.2.1 allows remote att

Cross-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.

MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3 EPSS 0.01243
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Affected Products & Versions

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oracle apexall versions
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Scoring & Timeline

4.3
MEDIUM · CVSS v2 (legacy) · cve@mitre.org
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This CVE predates CVSS v3; the legacy v2 score is shown so triage still has a severity to work with.
v2 Vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Published to NVD28 Oct 2006 · 01:07 AM
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References & Sources

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Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1792
http://www.oracle.com/technology/deploy/security/critical-patch-updates/cpuoct2006.htmlPatch
http://www.red-database-security.com/advisory/oracle_apex_css_wwv_flow_item_help.htmlPatchVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/449500/100/0/threaded
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-291A.htmlPatchUS Government Resource
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