CVE Catalog

CVE-2000-0958

Medium
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

High risk
2.84%

86th percentile - higher than 86% of all known CVEs

Summary

HotJava Browser 3.0 allows remote attackers to access the DOM of a web page by opening a javascript: URL in a named window.

Risk Assessment

An attacker may execute malicious script in the context of the visited page, potentially leading to session data theft or content manipulation.

Recommendation

Update HotJava Browser to a newer version or stop using it; restrict execution of javascript: URLs in named windows.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

HotJava Browser 3.0 allows remote attackers to access the DOM of a web page by opening a javascript: URL in a named window.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS