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Maxthon Security ID Disclosure Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA14918
Release Date: 2005-04-11
Last Update: 2005-04-14
Popularity: 7,841 views

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Maxthon (MyIE2) 1.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2005-1090
CVE-2005-1091


Description:
Aviv Raff has reported a vulnerability in Maxthon, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a design error where the security ID of a plug-in is not properly protected from being included and accessed on an external website via the script tag. This can e.g. be exploited to read and write arbitrary files via the "readFile()" and "writeFile()" API functions via directory traversal attacks.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 1.2.0 and 1.2.1. Prior versions may also be affected.

Solution:
Update to version 1.2.2.
http://www.maxthon.com/download.htm

Provided and/or discovered by:
Aviv Raff

Changelog:
2005-04-14: Added CVE references.

Original Advisory:
http://www.raffon.net/advisories/maxthon/multvulns.html


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