Maxthon 1.5.6 Build 42 data information disclosure

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Maxthon 1.5.6 Build 42. The affected element is an unknown function. The manipulation of the argument data leads to information disclosure. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2006-6985. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Maxthon 1.5.6 Build 42. This issue affects an unknown functionality. The manipulation of the argument data with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

Cross-domain vulnerability in Maxthon 1.5.6 build 42 allows remote attackers to access restricted information from other domains via an object tag with a data parameter that references a link on the attacker s originating site that specifies a Location HTTP header that references the target site, which then makes that content available through the outerHTML attribute of the object, a similar vulnerability to CVE-2006-3280.

The weakness was released 02/08/2007 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at pridels0.blogspot.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2006-6985 since 02/08/2007. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1592 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at VDB-34938, VDB-34937, VDB-34936 and VDB-34935. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• Maxthon

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• 1.5.6 Build 42

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