A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Internet Explorer 7/8 (Web Browser). It has been classified as problematic. Affected is an unknown code of the component IFRAME Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality.

The issue has been introduced in 07/27/2005. The weakness was shared 03/04/2010 by Soroush Dalili as IE7-8 drive list enumeration! as not defined blog post (Website). The advisory is shared for download at soroush.secproject.com. The public release happened without coordination with the vendor. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1592.

A public exploit has been developed by Soroush Dalili and been published immediately after the advisory. The exploit is shared for download at 0me.me. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1681 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $25k-$100k.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Web Browser

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• Microsoft

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• Internet Explorer

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• 7
• 8

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• commercial

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• end of life

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