Microsoft Internet Explorer up to 6.0 VBScript Engine privileges management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability identified as critical has been detected in Microsoft Internet Explorer up to 6.0. Impacted is an unknown function of the component VBScript Engine. The manipulation leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2002-0052. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. Applying a patch is the recommended action to fix this issue.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Microsoft Internet Explorer up to 6.0 (Web Browser). This issue affects some unknown functionality of the component VBScript Engine. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

Internet Explorer 6.0 and earlier does not properly handle VBScript in certain domain security checks, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files.

The weakness was disclosed 02/21/2002 by Zentai Peter Aron as MS02-009 as confirmed bulletin (Technet). The advisory is shared at microsoft.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2002-0052. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 10926 (MS02-009: IE VBScript Handling patch (318089)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Windows : Microsoft Bulletins.

Applying the patch MS02-009 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at microsoft.com.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (8252), Tenable (10926), SecurityFocus (BID 4158†), OSVDB (763†) and SecurityTracker (ID 1003630†). The entries VDB-17954 and VDB-17953 are pretty similar. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Class: Privileges management
CWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
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Nessus ID: 10926
Nessus Name: MS02-009: IE VBScript Handling patch (318089)
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OpenVAS ID: 10926
OpenVAS Name: IE VBScript Handling patch (Q318089)
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Patch: MS02-009

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06/27/2021 +2543 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: microsoft.com

Advisory: MS02-009
Researcher: Zentai Peter Aron
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2002-0052 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2002-0052
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-17957
X-Force: 8252
SecurityFocus: 4158
OSVDB: 763 - Microsoft IE VBScript Mis-Handling Arbitrary File Access
SecurityTracker: 1003630 - Microsoft Internet Explorer Has Another Frame Domain Security Bug That Lets Remote Users View Files or Other Personal Information from a Victim's Computer By Using Malicious VBScripts
Vulnerability Center: 369 - [MS02-009] Microsoft Internet Explorer VBScript Same Origin Policy Violation, Medium

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Entryinfo

Created: 07/11/2014 13:40
Updated: 06/27/2021 09:30
Changes: 07/11/2014 13:40 (81), 04/07/2017 12:06 (1), 06/27/2021 09:30 (2)
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