Secunia - Stay Secure
Gartner
Home Corporate Website Jobs Updated Mailing Lists RSS Blog  Online Shop Advertise
Software Inspectors
  Scan Online
  Personal (PSI)
  Network (NSI 2.0)

Solutions For
  Security Professionals
  Security Vendors

Free Solutions For
  Open Communities
  Journalists & Media

Secunia Advisories
  Search
  Historic Advisories
  Listed By Product
  Listed By Vendor
  Statistics / Graphs
  Secunia Research
  Report Vulnerability
  About Advisories

Virus Information
  Chronological List
  Last 10 Virus Alerts
  About Virus Information

Secunia Customers
  Customer Area


Internet Explorer/Outlook Express Restricted Zone Status Bar Spoofing Advisory Available in Danish 

Secunia Advisory: SA11273  
Release Date: 2004-04-01
Last Update: 2004-12-07

Critical:
Not critical
Impact: Security Bypass
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.x
Microsoft Outlook Express 5
Microsoft Outlook Express 5.5
Microsoft Outlook Express 6

CVE reference:CVE-2004-1104 (Secunia mirror)

This advisory is currently marked as unpatched!
- Companies can be alerted when a patch is released!


Description:
http-equiv has discovered a weakness in Internet Explorer, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to trick users into visiting a malicious website.

It is normally possible for script code to manipulate information displayed in the status bar. However, an error in Internet Explorer allows manipulation of the status bar without using any script code. This can be exploited by embedding a specially crafted form in a link.

Example:
<A HREF="http://[trusted_site]/">
<FORM action=http://[malicious_site]/ method=get>
<INPUT style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt;
BORDER-LEFT: 0pt; CURSOR: hand; COLOR: blue; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0pt;
BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; TEXT-DECORATION: underline"
type=submit value=http://[trusted_site]/>
</A>

This also affects Outlook Express as it uses the same HTML rendering functionality as Internet Explorer. Outlook Express users may especially trust information displayed in the status bar since HTML documents are viewed in context of the "Restricted" zone, which has scripting support disabled.

Successful exploitation may result in a user being tricked into visiting a malicious website by following a specially crafted link.

The problem has been confirmed in versions 5.01 and 6. Version 5.5 is likely also affected.

Solution:
Never follow links from untrusted sources.

Provided and/or discovered by:
http-equiv, malware.com.

Changelog:
2004-12-07: Added CVE reference.



Please note: The information that this Secunia Advisory is based on comes from a third party unless stated otherwise.

Secunia collects, validates, and verifies all vulnerability reports issued by security research groups, vendors, and others.

150 Related Secunia Security Advisories, displaying 10

1. Internet Explorer 6 Window "location" Handling Vulnerability
2. Internet Explorer "substringData()" Memory Corruption Vulnerability
3. Internet Explorer "Print Table of Links" Cross-Zone Scripting
4. Internet Explorer HTTP Request Smuggling/Splitting Vulnerabilities
5. Internet Explorer FTP Command Injection Vulnerability
6. Microsoft Internet Explorer Multiple Vulnerabilities
7. Internet Explorer Multiple Code Execution Vulnerabilities
8. Microsoft Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Feature Security Issue
9. Internet Explorer Data Stream Handling Vulnerability
10. Internet Explorer Unspecified Address Bar Spoofing Vulnerability

Show all related advisories


Send Feedback to Secunia

If you have new information regarding this Secunia advisory or a product in our database, please send it to us using either our web form or email us at vuln@secunia.com.

Ideas, suggestions, and other feedback are most welcome.








Secunia PSI
Scan | Patch | Track
Free Download

Secunia Poll

Do you think it's important to read Setup/User Guides for applications for use within your network?


See Results   


Most Popular Advisories

1.
BlackBerry Enterprise Server PDF Processing Vulnerability
2.
Sun Solaris System Management Agent SNMP Daemon Buffer Overflow
3.
Vim configure.in Insecure Temporary Files
4.
tplSoccerSite Multiple SQL Injection Vulnerabilities
5.
IBM WebSphere Application Server Unspecified Vulnerability
6.
MRO Maximo Information Disclosure and Cross-Site Scripting
7.
ArticleBeach Script "page" File Inclusion Vulnerability
8.
LunarNight Laboratory WebProxy Cross-Site Scripting
9.
Joomla DT Register Component "eventId" SQL Injection
10.
phpHoo3 "viewCat" SQL Injection Vulnerability





Vulnerability Management - Terms & Conditions - Copyright 2002-2008 Secunia - Compliance - Contact Secunia