CVE-2006-5599

N/A Unknown
Published: October 28, 2006 Modified: April 23, 2026
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Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Oracle Application Express (formerly HTML DB) before 2.2.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTML or web script via the WWV_FLOW_ITEM_HELP package. NOTE: it is likely that this issue overlaps one of the Oracle VulnIDs covered by CVE-2006-5351. Oracle has not publicly disputed claims by a reliable researcher that this has been fixed by the October 2006 CPU.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1792
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.oracle.com/technology/deploy/security/critical-patch-updates/cpuoct2006.html
Source: cve@mitre.org
Patch
http://www.red-database-security.com/advisory/oracle_apex_css_wwv_flow_item_help.html
Source: cve@mitre.org
Patch Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/449500/100/0/threaded
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-291A.html
Source: cve@mitre.org
Patch US Government Resource
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1792
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.oracle.com/technology/deploy/security/critical-patch-updates/cpuoct2006.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Patch
http://www.red-database-security.com/advisory/oracle_apex_css_wwv_flow_item_help.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Patch Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/449500/100/0/threaded
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-291A.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Patch US Government Resource

10 reference(s) from NVD

Quick Stats

CVSS v3 Score
N/A / 10.0
Exploitation Status
Not in CISA KEV

Affected Vendors

oracle