CVE-2006-6986

HIGH 7.8CVE-2006-6986 · Published 09/02/2007 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2006-6986 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.8) vulnerability affecting phaseout (phaseout).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.5%, higher than 73.9% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
phaseout phaseout	`= 5.4.4`	No fix yet

Description

Cross-domain vulnerability in PhaseOut 5.4.4 allows remote attackers to access restricted information from other domains via an object tag with a data parameter that references a link on the attacker's originating site that specifies a Location HTTP header that references the target site, which then makes that content available through the outerHTML attribute of the object, a similar vulnerability to CVE-2006-3280.

References

pridels0.blogspot.com/2006/06/multiple-browsers-information.html

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