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Internet Explorer Frame Injection Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA11966
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Release Date:
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2004-06-30
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Last Update:
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2008-05-19
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Popularity:
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89,468 views
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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Spoofing
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Workaround
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| Software: | Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.x
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2004-0719
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Description:
Mark Laurence has discovered a 6 year old vulnerability in Internet Explorer, which can be exploited by malicious people to spoof the contents of websites.
The vulnerability is caused due to Internet Explorer not checking if a target frame belongs to a website containing a malicious link, which therefore does not prevent one browser window from loading content in a named frame in another window.
Successful exploitation allows a malicious website to load arbitrary content in an arbitrary frame in another browser window owned by e.g. a trusted site.
Secunia has constructed a test, which can be used to check if your browser is affected by this issue:
http://secunia.com/multiple_browsers_frame_injection_vulnerability_test/
This vulnerability is similar to an old vulnerability fixed by MS98-020 in Internet Explorer versions 3 and 4.
The vulnerability has been confirmed in a fully patched Internet Explorer 6 and 7 running on Microsoft Windows XP. Other versions of Internet Explorer may also be affected.
NOTE: "Navigate sub-frames across different domains" is not enabled by default in IE7.
Solution:
Disable the following security setting:
"Navigate sub-frames across different domains".
Do not visit or follow links from untrusted websites.
Provided and/or discovered by:
Discovered by Mark Laurence
Example by http-equiv
Changelog:
2004-07-01: Updated description and credits section.
2004-07-01: Added link to test and updated solution.
2004-07-02: Updated solution.
2004-07-27: Added CVE reference.
2008-05-19: Added IE7 to list of affected products. Updated "Description".
Other References:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms98-020.mspx
SA11978:
http://secunia.com/advisories/11978/
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