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>> Microsoft Products "mhtml" Cross Domain Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Title : Microsoft Products "mhtml" Cross Domain Information Disclosure Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2006-1558
CVE ID : CVE-2006-2111
Rated as : Moderate Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2006-04-27


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A vulnerability has been identified in Microsoft Internet Explorer and Outlook Express, which could be exploited by remote attackers to bypass security restrictions and gain knowledge of sensitive information. This flaw is due to an origin validation error when handling "mhtml:" URL redirections, which could be exploited by remote attackers to read content and data served from another domain in the context of a malicious web page.

Note : A fully functional exploit code has been released.

Affected Products

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 for Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 for Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 for Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (Itanium)
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP1 (Itanium)
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 on Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 on Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 1
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 for Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 for Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (Itanium)
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP1 (Itanium)
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 for Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 on Microsoft Windows 98
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 on Microsoft Windows 98 SE
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 on Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition
Microsoft Outlook Express 5.5
Microsoft Outlook Express 6

Solution

Disable Active Scripting in the Internet and Local intranet security zones :

- In Internet Explorer, click Internet Options on the Tools menu
- Click the Security tab
- Click Internet, and then click Custom Level
- Under Settings, in the Scripting section, under Active Scripting, click Disable, and then click OK
- Click Local intranet, and then click Custom Level
- Under Settings, in the Scripting section, under Active Scripting, click Disable, and then click OK
- If you are prompted to confirm that you want to change these settings, click Yes
- Click OK to return to Internet Explorer

Note : Disabling Active Scripting may cause some Web sites to work incorrectly.

VUPEN Security is not aware of any vendor-supplied patch.

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1558

Credits

Vulnerability reported by codedreamer

ChangeLog

2006-04-27 : Initial release
2006-10-19 : Updated Affected Products

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