CVE-2008-4930

CVSS V2 Medium 5 CVSS V3 None

Description

MyBB (aka MyBulletinBoard) 1.4.2 does not properly handle an uploaded file with a nonstandard file type that contains HTML sequences, which allows remote attackers to cause that file to be processed as HTML by Internet Explorer's content inspection, aka "Incomplete protection against MIME-sniffing." NOTE: this could be leveraged for XSS and other attacks.

Overview

CVE ID
CVE-2008-4930

Assigner
cve@mitre.org

Vulnerability Status
Analyzed

Published Version
2008-11-04T21:00:05

Last Modified Date
2008-11-05T05:00:00

Weakness Enumerations

CWE	URL
CWE-20	http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/20.html

CPE Configuration (Product)

CPE	Vulnerable	Operator	Version Start	Version End
cpe:2.3:a:mybb:mybb:1.4.2:::::::*	1	OR

CVSS Version 2

Version
2.0

Vector String
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Access Vector
NETWORK

Access Compatibility
LOW

Authentication
NONE

Confidentiality Impact
NONE

Integrity Impact
PARTIAL

Availability Impact
NONE

Base Score
5

Severity
MEDIUM

Exploitability Score
10

Impact Score
2.9

References

Reference URL	Reference Tags
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2008-10/0472.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2008-10/0203.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/01/2

Sources

Source Name	Source URL
NIST	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4930
MITRE	https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4930

History

Created	Old Value	New Value	Data Type	Notes
2022-05-10 11:18:08				Added to TrackCVE