Executive Summary

Summary
Title Vulnerability in DHTML Editing Component ActiveX Control Could Allow Remote Code Execution (956844)
Informations
Name MS09-046 First vendor Publication 2009-09-08
Vendor Microsoft Last vendor Modification 2009-12-02
Severity (Vendor) Critical Revision 1.2

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 9.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Revision Note: V1.2 (December 2, 2009): Added a link to Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 956844 under Known Issues in the Executive Summary.Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in the DHTML Editing Component ActiveX control. An attacker could exploit the vulnerability by constructing a specially crafted Web page. When a user views the Web page, the vulnerability could allow remote code execution. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the logged-on user. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.

Original Source

Url : http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS09-046.mspx

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-94 Failure to Control Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6271
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6271
Title: DHTML Editing Component ActiveX Control Vulnerability
Description: The DHTML Editing Component ActiveX control in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, and Server 2003 SP2 does not properly format HTML markup, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted web site that triggers "system state" corruption, aka "DHTML Editing Component ActiveX Control Vulnerability."
Family: windows Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2009-2519
Version: 3
Platform(s): Microsoft Windows 2000
Microsoft Windows XP
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Os 1
Os 1
Os 3

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-09-10 Name : Microsoft DHTML Editing Component ActiveX Remote Code Execution Vulnerability...
File : nvt/secpod_ms09-046.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
57798 Microsoft Windows DHTML Editing Component ActiveX Arbitrary Code Execution

Information Assurance Vulnerability Management (IAVM)

Date Description
2009-09-10 IAVM : 2009-A-0075 - Microsoft DHTML Editing Component ActiveX Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Severity : Category II - VMSKEY : V0019915

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2014-01-10 Microsoft Internet Explorer DHTML Editing ActiveX clsid access
RuleID : 4148 - Revision : 23 - Type : BROWSER-PLUGINS
2016-03-14 Microsoft Internet Explorer DHTML Editing ActiveX clsid access
RuleID : 36783 - Revision : 3 - Type : BROWSER-PLUGINS
2016-03-14 Microsoft Internet Explorer DHTML Editing ActiveX clsid access
RuleID : 36782 - Revision : 3 - Type : BROWSER-PLUGINS
2014-01-10 DHTML Editing ActiveX function call unicode access
RuleID : 15925 - Revision : 8 - Type : WEB-ACTIVEX
2014-01-10 Microsoft Internet Explorer DHTML Editing ActiveX clsid access
RuleID : 15924 - Revision : 16 - Type : BROWSER-PLUGINS
2014-01-10 DHTML Editing ActiveX clsid unicode access
RuleID : 15923 - Revision : 8 - Type : WEB-ACTIVEX

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2009-09-08 Name : Arbitrary code can be executed on the remote host through an ActiveX control.
File : smb_nt_ms09-046.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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2014-02-17 11:46:19
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2014-01-19 21:30:22
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2013-11-11 12:41:13
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