Secunia Advisory SA22477

Internet Explorer 7 "mhtml:" Redirection Information Disclosure
Secunia Advisory SA22477
Release Date 2006-10-19
Last Update 2007-06-12
   
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Criticality level Less criticalLess critical
Impact Exposure of sensitive information
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
Remediation status Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
Automated scanning Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
   
Software:
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.x

Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2006-2111 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description
A vulnerability has been discovered in Internet Explorer, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the handling of redirections for URLs with the "mhtml:" URI handler. This can be exploited to access documents served from another web site.

Secunia has constructed a test, which is available at:
http://secunia.com/Internet_Explorer_Arbitrary_Content_Disclosure_Vulnerability_Test/

Secunia has confirmed the vulnerability on a fully patched system with Internet Explorer 7.0 and Microsoft Windows XP SP2. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution
Apply patches.
Further details available in Customer Area

Changelog
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
MS07-034 (KB929123):
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms07-034.mspx

Other references
Further details available in Customer Area

Deep Links
Links available in Customer Area


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Subject: Internet Explorer 7 "mhtml:" Redirection Information Disclosure
 
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