IE https certificate attack

e-matters GmbH www.e-matters.de -= Security Advisory =- Advisory: Interner Explorer HTTPS certificate attack Release Date: 2001/12/22 Author: Stefan Esser [email protected] Application: Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0/5.5/6.0 Severity: Vulnerability in IE's SSL Certificate handling allows...

Microsoft Internet Explorer does not properly handle document.open()

Overview Microsoft Internet Explorer contains a vulnerability in which a script from one source is permitted to access files on the client's file system. An attacker may be able to read cookies and other files on a target system, and spoof Internet sites by creating believable window titles...

CVE-2001-0727

Internet Explorer 6.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by modifying the Content-Disposition and Content-Type header fields in a way that causes Internet Explorer to believe that the file is safe to open without prompting the user, aka the "File Execution Vulnerability."...

Microsoft Internet Explorer download dialog may not display complete filenames

Overview There is a vulnerability in the download dialog box in Internet Explorer versions 5.5 and 6.0. The vulnerability allows an attacker to mislead users, causing them to inadvertently execute arbitrary code on the user's system. Description When downloading files included in web pages, users...

Internet Explorer allows reading of local files by remote webpages

Summary ------- There is a vulnerability in MS Internet Explorer that allows any webpage or HTML email to read arbitrary local files. This bug may also lead to remote command execution. Vulnerable versions ------------------- All versions of IE seem to be affected. The following configurations ha...

CVE-2001-0919

Internet Explorer 5.50.4134.0100 on Windows ME with "Prompt to allow cookies to be stored on your machine" enabled does not warn a user when a cookie is set using Javascript...

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.56.0 - Spoofable File Extensions

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.56.0 - Spoofable File Extensions source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3597/info It is possible for a malicious webmaster, hosting files on an website, to spoof file extensions for users of Internet Explorer. For example, an .exe file can be made to look like a...

CVE-2001-0807

Internet Explorer 5.0, and possibly other versions, may allow remote attackers malicious web pages to read known text files from a client's hard drive via a SCRIPT tag with a SRC value that points to the text file...

CVE-2001-0723

Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6.0 allows remote attackers to read and modify user cookies via Javascript, aka the "Second Cookie Handling Vulnerability."...

Security Bulletin MS01-055

---------------------------------------------------------------------- Title: Cookie Data in IE Can Be Exposed or Altered Through Script Injection Date: 08 November 2001 Software: Internet Explorer Impact: Exposure and altering of data in cookies Max Risk: High Bulletin: MS01-055 Microsoft...

CVE-2001-0667

Internet Explorer 6 and earlier, when used with the Telnet client in Services for Unix SFU 2.0, allows remote attackers to execute commands by spawning Telnet with a log file option on the command line and writing arbitrary code into an executable file which is later executed, aka a new variant o...

CVE-2001-0664

Internet Explorer 5.5 and 5.01 allows remote attackers to bypass security restrictions via malformed URLs that contain dotless IP addresses, which causes Internet Explorer to process the page in the Intranet Zone, which may have fewer security restrictions, aka the "Zone Spoofing vulnerability."...

CVE-2001-0712

The rendering engine in Internet Explorer determines the MIME type independently of the type that is specified by the server, which allows remote servers to automatically execute script which is placed in a file whose MIME type does not normally support scripting, such as text .txt, JPEG .jpg, et...

Minor IE vulnerability: about: URLs

Zone spoofing? Oh yes, that reminds me. Here's another one. Affected: Internet Explorer under Windows, up to version 6 Risk: Low Workaround: Disable scripting in the Internet Zone Problem: If an unknown 'about:' name is used, IE echos the string exactly to the page. So 'about:foo' results in an...

CVE-1999-1235

Internet Explorer 5.0 records the username and password for FTP servers in the URL history, which could allow 1 local users to read the information from another user's index.dat, or 2 people who are physically observing "shoulder surfing" another user to read the information from the status bar...

CVE-2001-0002

Internet Explorer 5.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to obtain the physical location of cached content and open the content in the Local Computer Zone, then use compiled HTML help .chm files to execute arbitrary programs...

CVE-2001-0246

Internet Explorer 5.5 and earlier does not properly verify the domain of a frame within a browser window, which allows remote web site operators to read certain files on the client by sending information from a local frame to a frame in a different domain, aka a variant of the "Frame Domain...

CVE-2001-0339

Internet Explorer 5.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to display a URL in the address bar that is different than the URL that is actually being displayed, which could be used in web site spoofing attacks, aka the "Web page spoofing vulnerability."...

Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) permits modification of URL displayed in address bar

Overview A vulnerability exists in Microsoft Internet Explorer which could could enable an attacker to spoof trusted web sites. Description A vulnerability exists in Microsoft Internet Explorer. This vulnerability could enable a web page to display the URL from a different web site in the IE...

CVE-2001-0148

The WMP ActiveX Control in Windows Media Player 7 allows remote attackers to execute commands in Internet Explorer via javascript URLs, a variant of the "Frame Domain Verification" vulnerability...