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Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 - Custom HTTP Error HTML Injection
source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7939/info
An issue has been reported for Microsoft Internet Explorer that may result in HTML injection attacks. The vulnerability exists when IE is used to display custom HTTP error messages also known as "Friendly HTTP error messages".
Due to some errors when extracting URLs from the custom error pages, it is possible to cause IE to output malicious HTML code.
Exploitation may allow theft of cookie-based authentication credentials or other attacks.
res://shdoclc.dll/HTTP_501.htm#javascript:%2f*://*%2falert(location.href)/
"Marek Blahus" <[email protected]> also provided an additional proof-of-concept example:
res://shdoclc.dll/http_404.htm#javascript:alert(String.fromCharCode(72,101,108,108,111));//://clickme/ Data
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17 Jun 2003 00:00Current
7.4High risk
Vulners AI Score7.4