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Microsoft MSN Messenger Arbitrary File Retrieval Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA11078
Release Date: 2004-03-09
Popularity: 12,792 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Exposure of sensitive information
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Microsoft MSN Messenger 6.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
qFox and Mephisto have discovered a vulnerability in Microsoft MSN Messenger, allowing malicious people to retrieve files from a vulnerable system.

The problem is that a malicious person can send a specially crafted request which can retrieve files from known locations. This can be exploited to retrieve any file which the current user got read access to.

This affects Microsoft MSN Messenger 6.0 and 6.1.

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