Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 - URI Handler Restriction Circumvention

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5730/info Microsoft Windows Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 introduced restrictions for certain URI handlers such as file:// and res://. It has been demonstrated in the past that these URI handlers could be abused and incorporated into different types of attack...

Netscape Communicator 4.x - URL Read

Netscape Communicator 4.x - URL Read source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1546/info A flaw in Netscape Communicator's implementation of Java allows malicious applets to read any resource reachable via a URL from the local machine by using the netscape.net.URLConnection and...