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Microsoft Internet Explorer Popup Title Bar Spoofing Weakness
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA14335
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Release Date:
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2005-02-21
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Last Update:
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2005-02-22
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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Spoofing
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Unpatched
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| Software: | Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.x
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| | CVE reference: | CVE-2005-0500 (Secunia mirror)
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This advisory is currently marked as unpatched!
- Companies can be alerted when a patch is released! |
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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.
Solution:
Do not enter sensitive information in popups after following links from untrusted sources.
Provided and/or discovered by:
bitlance winter
Changelog:
2005-02-22: Added CVE reference.
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