CVE-2008-4930

Published Nov 4, 2008

Last updated 16 years ago

Overview

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.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Analyzed

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 5
Impact score: 2.9
Exploitability score: 10
Vector string: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: CWE-20

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:mybb:mybb:1.4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "9503D6C2-DCBC-4720-BE29-34913950407E"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References