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Microsoft Internet Explorer Popup Title Bar Spoofing Weakness
Secunia Advisory: SA14335
Release Date: 2005-02-21
Last Update: 2005-02-22
Popularity: 41,340 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Spoofing
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.x

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Description:
bitlance winter has discovered a weakness in Internet Explorer, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct phishing attacks.

Windows XP SP2 has a security feature, which forces the URL of a popup to the present in the title bar when a popup has been opened without the address bar.

The problem is that the title bar can be spoofed via an overly long hostname. This can e.g. be exploited by a malicious web site to trick a user into entering sensitive information in a popup placed over a trusted site.

The weakness has been confirmed on a fully patched system with Internet Explorer 6.0 and Microsoft Windows XP SP2.

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