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Secunia Advisory SA22628

Internet Explorer 7 Window Injection Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory SA22628
Secunia VIM 4.0 - Free Trial
Release Date 2006-10-30
   
Popularity 92,578 views
Comments 3 comments

Criticality level Moderately criticalModerately critical
Impact Spoofing
Where From remote
Authentication level This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
   
Report reliability This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Solution Status Unpatched
   
   
3rd party PoC/exploit Link available in Customer Area
Systems affected This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Approve distribution This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Remediation status Secunia VIM
   
Software:
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.x

Secunia CVSS Score This information is available to Secunia VIM Customers
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2004-1155 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
  

Description

A vulnerability has been discovered in Internet Explorer 7, which can be exploited by malicious people to spoof the content of websites.

The problem is that a website can inject content into another site's window if the target name of the window is known. This can e.g. be exploited by a malicious website to spoof the content of a pop-up window opened on a trusted website.

This is related to:
SA13251

Secunia has constructed a test, which can be used to check if your browser is affected by this issue:
http://secunia.com/multiple_browsers_window_injection_vulnerability_test/

The vulnerability has been confirmed on a fully patched system with Internet Explorer 7.0 and Microsoft Windows XP SP2.


Solution
Do not browse untrusted sites while browsing trusted sites.

Provided and/or discovered by
Originally discovered by:
Secunia Research

Reported in Internet Explorer 7 by:
Per Gravgaard

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Subject: Internet Explorer 7 Window Injection Vulnerability
 
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paulden75@commspeed.net RE: Internet Explorer 7 Window Injection Vulnerability
Member 24th Aug, 2010 10:17
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Last edited on 24th Aug, 2010 20:33
The link http://secunia.com/multiple_browsers_window_inject...

does not work. I get a 404 error. I am running XP SP3, not SP2 as indicated in the document, but still get the insecure Explorer 7 message.
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s0n RE: Internet Explorer 7 Window Injection Vulnerability
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The link is broken. Why not fix it?
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