CVE-2013-3166

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Publication date:

10/07/2013

Last modified:

11/04/2025

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 10 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving incorrect auto-selection of the Shift JIS encoding, leading to cross-domain scrolling events, aka "Shift JIS Character Encoding Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2013-0015.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.30 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): None

Base Score 2.0

4.30

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:6:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:7:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:8:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:9:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:10:::::::*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:6:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:7:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:8:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:9:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:10:::::::*

CVE-2013-3166

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools