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Internet Explorer Address Bar Spoofing Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA12304
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Release Date:
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2004-08-16
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Last Update:
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2006-03-23
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Popularity:
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99,822 views
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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Spoofing
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Partial Fix
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| Software: | Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.x
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Description:
Liu Die Yu has discovered a vulnerability in Internet Explorer, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to conduct phishing attacks against a user.
The vulnerability is caused due to Internet Explorer failing to update the address bar after a sequence of actions has been performed on a named window. This can be exploited to display content from a malicious site while displaying the URL of a trusted site in the address bar.
The vulnerability has been confirmed on a fully patched system with Internet Explorer 6 running on Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4 / Microsoft Windows XP SP1.
Previous versions of Internet Explorer may also be affected.
Secunia has developed a demonstration of the vulnerability, which may be found here:
http://secunia.com/internet_explorer_address_bar_spoofing_test_popup/
NOTE: Currently known attack vectors do not work on Windows XP systems with SP2 applied.
Solution:
Disable Active Scripting or use another product.
Provided and/or discovered by:
Liu Die Yu
Changelog:
2004-08-17: Added link to original advisory.
2005-08-08: Updated link to original advisory.
2006-03-23: Updated solution status.
Original Advisory:
http://umbrella.name/computer/originalvuln/msie/NullyFake/nullyfake-content.txt
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