A vulnerability has been found in Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 (Web Browser) and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code block of the component Clear History Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

internet explorer 3 records a history of all url s that are visited by a user in dat files located in the temporary internet files and history folders which are not cleared when the user selects the "clear history" option and are not visible when the user browses the folders because of tailored displays.

The issue has been introduced in 03/01/1996. The weakness was presented 08/05/1997 as not defined posting (Bugtraq). It is possible to read the advisory at marc.theaimsgroup.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-1999-1446. The exploitation appears to be easy. Attacking locally is a requirement. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1592 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 522 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

Additional details are provided at marc.theaimsgroup.com.

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• Web Browser

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• Microsoft

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• Internet Explorer

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• 3.0

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• commercial

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• end of life

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