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Internet Explorer Address Bar Spoofing Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA12304
Release Date: 2004-08-16
Last Update: 2006-03-23
Popularity: 103,204 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Spoofing
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Partial Fix

Software:Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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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.

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