25073 : Microsoft IE mhtml: Redirection Domain Restriction Bypass
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Views This Week	Views All Time	Added to OSVDB	Last Modified	Modified (since 2008)	Percent Complete
3	569	over 4 years ago	3 months ago	1 times	90%

Timeline

Disclosure Date	Exploit Publish Date	Vendor Solution Date
2006-04-28	2006-04-28	2007-07-06

Days of Exposure
434 days

Description

Internet Explorer contains a flaw that may allow a malicious user to access documents served from another web site. The issue is caused due to an error in the handling of redirections for URLs with the "mhtml:" URI handler. It is possible that the flaw may allow a malicious website to access properties of a site in an arbitrary external domain in the context of the victim user's browser resulting in a loss of confidentiality.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Information Disclosure
Impact: Loss of Confidentiality
Solution: Solution Unknown
Exploit: Exploit Public
Disclosure: Vendor Verified

Solution

Currently, there are no known upgrades, patches, or workarounds available to correct this issue.

Products

Microsoft Corporation	Internet Explorer	6.0
		7.0

References

Security Tracker: 1016005
Bugtraq ID: 17717
Secunia Advisory ID: 19738 22477 25639
CVE ID: 2006-2111 (see also: NVD)
SCIP VulDB ID: 2191
Related OSVDB ID: 35346
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 929123
VUPEN Advisory: ADV-2006-1558
Mail List Post: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2006-10/0574.html
News Article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20061019/tc_pcworld/127564
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199902337
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35210
Generic Exploit URL: http://secunia.com/Internet_Explorer_Arbitrary_Content_Disclosure_Vulnerability_Test/
Vendor URL: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.mspx
Microsoft Security Bulletin: MS07-034

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Credit

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CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 4.3
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2006-05-01 | Disagree?

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