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Secunia Advisory SA9711

Microsoft Internet Explorer Multiple Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory SA9711
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Release Date 2003-09-11
Last Update 2004-02-09
   
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Criticality level Extremely criticalExtremely critical
Impact Cross Site Scripting
Exposure of sensitive information
System access
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 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

Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Microsoft Internet Explorer. Some could expose sensitive information others may lead to execution of arbitrary code.

1) File-protocol proxy / WsOpenFileJPU
A malicious site may retrieve cookie information from other sites by opening them in the "_search" window. This information may then be retrieved using the file protocol. It is believed that this could also be exploited to execute arbitrary code in the context of the other domain including the local security zone.

2) NavigateAndFind protocol history / NAFjpuInHistory
It is possible to retrieve information and execute JavaScript in the context of other sites using the "history.back" function. This may also affect the local security zone.

3) window.open search injection / WsFakeSrc
It is possible to open different sites using "window.open" and access information and execute JavaScript in this window at any given time. This may also affect the local security zone.

4) NavigateAndFind file proxy / NAFfileJPU
A combination of the file protocol and the NavigateAndFind function allows malicious sites to access information and execute code in a different window and domain. This may also affect the local security zone.

5) Timed history injection / BackMyParent2
It is possible to access information from a site loaded in a different frame and domain using the "history.back" function.

6) history.back method caching / RefBack
This is a variant of 5) BackMyParent also allowing a site to access information from a different frame and domain.

7) Click hijacking / HijackClick
This allows malicious sites to trick users into performing actions like drag'n'drop a resource from one place to another without their knowledge. An example has been provided allowing sites to add links to "Favorites". However, resources need not be links and the destination could be different than "Favorites".

Issues 1-7 have been reported by Liu Die Yu and affect Internet Explorer with all patches. Several other issues have also been published. These however, affect Internet Explorer without all patches installed. Thus, they are not considered relevant as they to some extent are related to previously fixed vulnerabilities.


Solution
The vulnerabilities seem to have been fixed at some point by the latest Service Packs and patches.

Provided and/or discovered by
Discovered and published by Liu Die Yu.
Additional information by Thor Larholm.
Sample exploit by jelmer.

Changelog
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
http://safecenter.net/liudieyu/WsOpenFileJPU/WsOpenFileJPU-Content.HTM
http://safecenter.net/liudieyu/NAFjpuInHistory/NAFjpuInHistory-Content.HTM
http://safecenter.net/liudieyu/WsFakeSrc/WsFakeSrc-Content.HTM
http://safecenter.net/liudieyu/NAFfileJPU/NAFfileJPU-Content.HTM
http://safecenter.net/liudieyu/BackMyParent2/BackMyParent2-Content.HTM
http://safecenter.net/liudieyu/RefBack/RefBack-Content.HTM
http://safecenter.net/liudieyu/HijackClick/HijackClick-Content.HTM

Other references
Further details available in Customer Area

Deep Links
Links available in Customer Area


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