Microsoft Internet Explorer 9/10/11 History information disclosure

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Internet Explorer 9/10/11. It has been declared as problematic. This impacts an unknown function of the component History Handler. Such manipulation leads to information disclosure. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2015-1765. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit. It is advisable to implement a patch to correct this issue.

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A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Internet Explorer 9/10/11 (Web Browser). It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the component History Handler. The manipulation 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. CVE summarizes:

Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 through 11 allows remote attackers to read the browser history via a crafted web site.

The issue has been introduced in 03/16/2010. The weakness was presented 06/10/2015 with Microsoft as MS15-056 as confirmed bulletin (Technet). The advisory is shared for download at technet.microsoft.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2015-1765. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1592.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1911 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $25k-$100k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 84053 (MS15-056: Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (3058515)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Windows : Microsoft Bulletins. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 100237 (Microsoft Internet Explorer Cumulative Security Update (MS15-056)).

Applying the patch MS15-056 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at technet.microsoft.com. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (84053), SecurityFocus (BID 74994†), SecurityTracker (ID 1032521†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-50460†). See VDB-75750, VDB-75761, VDB-75762 and VDB-75763 for similar entries. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Class: Information disclosure
CWE: CWE-200 / CWE-284 / CWE-266
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Nessus ID: 84053
Nessus Name: MS15-056: Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (3058515)
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Vendor: microsoft.com

Advisory: MS15-056
Organization: Microsoft
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2015-1765 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2015-1765
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-75788

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SecurityFocus: 74994 - Microsoft Internet Explorer CVE-2015-1765 Information Disclosure Vulnerability
SecurityTracker: 1032521 - Microsoft Internet Explorer Multiple Flaws Let Remote Users Obtain Browser History and Execute Arbitrary Code
Vulnerability Center: 50460 - [MS15-056] Microsoft Internet Explorer 9-11 Remote Browser History Information Disclosure, Medium

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Entryinfo

Created: 06/10/2015 10:17
Updated: 11/30/2024 09:34
Changes: 06/10/2015 10:17 (68), 04/07/2017 12:13 (10), 05/20/2022 14:51 (2), 05/20/2022 14:54 (1), 11/30/2024 09:34 (16)
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