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CVE-2006-5599 Detail

Description

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.


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Hyperlink Resource
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1792
http://www.oracle.com/technology/deploy/security/critical-patch-updates/cpuoct2006.html Patch 
http://www.red-database-security.com/advisory/oracle_apex_css_wwv_flow_item_help.html Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/449500/100/0/threaded
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-291A.html Patch  US Government Resource 

Weakness Enumeration

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2006-5599
NVD Published Date:
10/27/2006
NVD Last Modified:
10/17/2018
Source:
MITRE