CVE-2008-2949: Microsoft Internet Explorer

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 20.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cross-domain vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and 7 allows remote attackers to change the location property of a frame via the String data type, and use a frame from a different domain to observe domain-independent events, as demonstrated by observing onkeydown events with caballero-listener. NOTE: according to Microsoft, this is a duplicate of CVE-2008-2947, possibly a different attack vector.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 6 only; version 7 only

Published 2008-06-30. Last modified 2026-06-16.