Description
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 9 does not properly handle unspecified character sequences, which allows remote attackers to read content from a different (1) domain or (2) zone via a crafted web site that triggers "inactive filtering," aka "Shift JIS Character Encoding Vulnerability."
References (2)
Core 2
Core References
Patch, Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_ms
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2011/ms11-057
Tool Signature vdb-entry
signature
x_refsource_oval
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12657
Scores
EPSS
0.1328
EPSS Percentile
95.9%
Details
CWE
CWE-20
Status
published
Products (4)
microsoft/internet_explorer
6
microsoft/internet_explorer
7
microsoft/internet_explorer
8
microsoft/internet_explorer
9
Published
Aug 10, 2011
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026