Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 Address Bar history.back authentication spoofing

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0. This affects the function history.back of the component Address Bar. The manipulation results in authentication spoofing. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2004-2219. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. Furthermore, an exploit is available. You should upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 (Web Browser). Affected is the function history.back of the component Address Bar. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a authentication spoofing vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-290. This attack-focused weakness is caused by incorrectly implemented authentication schemes that are subject to spoofing attacks. This is going to have an impact on integrity. CVE summarizes:

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar to facilitate phishing attacks via Javascript that uses an invalid URI, modifies the Location field, then uses history.back to navigate to the previous domain, aka NullyFake.

The issue has been introduced in 08/27/2001. The weakness was published 08/15/2004 as not defined posting (Bugtraq). The advisory is available at archives.neohapsis.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2004-2219 since 07/17/2005. 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 and a exploit are known.

After immediately, there has been an exploit disclosed. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1084 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (17007), SecurityFocus (BID 10943†), OSVDB (8978†), Secunia (SA12304†) and SecurityTracker (ID 1010957†). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Class: Authentication spoofing
CWE: CWE-290 / CWE-287
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Remote: Yes

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Status: Proof-of-Concept

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Recommended: Upgrade
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08/15/2004 +1084 days 🔍
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08/16/2004 +1 days 🔍
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07/17/2005 +198 days 🔍
03/09/2015 +3522 days 🔍
05/07/2019 +1520 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: microsoft.com

Advisory: archives.neohapsis.com
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2004-2219 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2004-2219
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-23130
X-Force: 17007 - Microsoft Internet Explorer address bar spoofing
SecurityFocus: 10943
Secunia: 12304 - Internet Explorer Address Bar Spoofing Vulnerability, Moderately Critical
OSVDB: 8978 - Microsoft IE Address Bar Spoofing (NullyFake)
SecurityTracker: 1010957 - Microsoft Internet Explorer Unregistered Protocol State Error Lets Remote Users Spoof Location Bar

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013

Entryinfo

Created: 03/09/2015 16:19
Updated: 05/07/2019 12:39
Changes: 03/09/2015 16:19 (63), 05/07/2019 12:39 (8)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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