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Secunia Advisory SA9056

Internet Explorer Custom HTTP Error Script Injection Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory SA9056
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Release Date 2003-06-17
Last Update 2004-08-20
   
Popularity 24,501 views
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Criticality level Moderately criticalModerately critical
Impact Cross Site Scripting
System access
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Partial Fix
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
   
Software:
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.x

Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) No CVE references.

  

Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Internet Explorer (IE), which can be exploited by malicious people to execute arbitrary script code on a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an input validation error in the custom errors generated by IE, when a website returns an error page. The problem is that the requested URL is included, which may allow execution of arbitrary script code in the "My Computer" security zone.

Successful exploitation requires that a user is tricked into visiting a malicious website or click a malicious link. Afterwards, the user must click the link generated by the resource.


Solution
Microsoft has changed the behavior for accessing local resources. In Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 it is no longer possible to link to local resources from the "Internet zone". This lowers the impact of the vulnerability as it only can be exploited in combination with other vulnerabilities.
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Provided and/or discovered by
GreyMagic Software

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Original Advisory
http://sec.greymagic.com/adv/gm014-ie/

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