Secunia Advisory SA11966

Internet Explorer Frame Injection Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory SA11966
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Release Date 2004-06-30
Last Update 2008-05-19
   
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Criticality level Moderately criticalModerately critical
Impact Spoofing
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Workaround
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
   
Software:
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.x
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.x

Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2004-0719 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description
Mark Laurence has discovered a 6 year old vulnerability in Internet Explorer, which can be exploited by malicious people to spoof the contents of websites.

The vulnerability is caused due to Internet Explorer not checking if a target frame belongs to a website containing a malicious link, which therefore does not prevent one browser window from loading content in a named frame in another window.

Successful exploitation allows a malicious website to load arbitrary content in an arbitrary frame in another browser window owned by e.g. a trusted site.

Secunia has constructed a test, which can be used to check if your browser is affected by this issue:
http://secunia.com/multiple_browsers_frame_injection_vulnerability_test/

This vulnerability is similar to an old vulnerability fixed by MS98-020 in Internet Explorer versions 3 and 4.

The vulnerability has been confirmed in a fully patched Internet Explorer 6 and 7 running on Microsoft Windows XP. Other versions of Internet Explorer may also be affected.

NOTE: "Navigate sub-frames across different domains" is not enabled by default in IE7.

Solution
Disable the following security setting:
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
Discovered by Mark Laurence
Example by http-equiv

Changelog
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