Cross-domain vulnerability in Maxthon 1.5.6 build 42 allows remote attackers to access…
Priority LOW 25Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- — Not recorded in CVSS 2.0
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Partial · None · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 2.0 · NVD. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
Cross-domain vulnerability in Maxthon 1.5.6 build 42 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.
Why it matters now
EPSS 0.01175 67th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | all versions | — | No fix listed | CNA |
- — Vendor— Affected all versions Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2006-6985
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-2cpp-wgf7-gr4j
More Maxthon vulnerabilities
- TI-2005-01028 Directory traversal vulnerability in the readFile and writeFile API for Maxthon 1.2.0 and… CVSS 2.0MEDIUM 6.4
- TI-2005-00848 Maxthon 1.2.0 allows remote malicious web sites to obtain potentially sensitive data from… CVSS 2.0LOW 2.6
Sources
- CVE-2006-6985 · CVE Program
- CVE-2006-6985 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-2cpp-wgf7-gr4j · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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