Microsoft Internet Explorer

XMLHTTP control in Microsoft XML Core Services 2.6 and later does not properly handle IE Security Zone settings, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files by specifying a local file as an XML Data Source.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 and 11 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory via a crafted web site, aka "Information Disclosure Vulnerability."

Internet Explorer 5.01 through 6.0 does not properly perform security checks on certain encoded characters within a URL, which allows a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information from a user by redirecting the user to another site that has that information, aka "Encoded Characters Information Disclosure."

The download function of Internet Explorer 6 SP1 allows remote attackers to obtain the cache directory name via an HTTP response with an invalid ContentType and a .htm file, which could allow remote attackers to bypass security mechanisms that rely on random names, as demonstrated by threadid10008.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory via crafted parameters in an ArrayBuffer.slice call, aka "Internet Explorer Information Disclosure Vulnerability."

A certain ActiveX control in Adobe Acrobat 9, when used with Microsoft Windows Vista and Internet Explorer 7, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (browser crash) via an src property value with an invalid acroie:// URL.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via Javascript that calls the alert function with a URL-encoded string of a large number of invalid characters.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and 7 does not initialize certain data structures during execution of the createElement method, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via crafted JavaScript code, as demonstrated by setting the (1) outerHTML or (2) value property of an object returned by createElement.

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

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 through 6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) with the p{cssText} element declared and a bold font weight.

Internet Explorer 5.0 allows window spoofing, allowing a remote attacker to spoof a legitimate web site and capture information from the client.

The browser history feature in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 through 6.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary script as other users and steal authentication information via cookies by injecting JavaScript into the URL, which is executed when the user hits the Back button.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP SP2 and SP3, and Internet Explorer 7 on Vista, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via JavaScript code that calls createElement to create an instance of the LI element, and then calls setAttribute to set the value attribute.

Unknown versions of Internet Explorer and Outlook allow remote attackers to spoof a legitimate URL in the status bar via A HREF tags with modified "alt" values that point to the legitimate site, combined with an image map whose href points to the malicious site, which facilitates a "phishing" attack.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by setting the Filter property of an ADODB.Recordset ActiveX object to certain values multiple times, which triggers a null dereference.

Internet Explorer 4.0 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary text and HTML files on the user's machine via a small IFRAME that uses Dynamic HTML (DHTML) to send the data to the attacker, aka the Freiburg text-viewing issue.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0, Outlook 2002, and Outlook 2003 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption), if "Do not save encrypted pages to disk" is disabled, via a web site or HTML e-mail that contains two null characters (%00) after the host name.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack overflow exception) via a DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Gradient ActiveX object with a long (1) StartColorStr or (2) EndColorStr property.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows NT 4.0 SP6a, Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP SP1, Windows XP SP2, and Windows Server 2003 SP1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (client crash) via a certain combination of a malformed HTML file and a CSS file that triggers a null dereference, probably related to rendering of a DIV element that contains a malformed IMG tag, as demonstrated by IEcrash.htm and IEcrash.rar.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0.1 through 6.0 allows remote attackers to determine the existence of arbitrary files via the VBScript LoadPicture method, which returns an error code if the file does not exist.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 6.0.2900.2180, and 7.0.6000.16711, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via an automatically submitted form containing a KEYGEN element, a related issue to CVE-2009-1828.

Cross-domain vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and 7 allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and access restricted information from other domains via JavaScript that overwrites the document variable and statically sets the document.domain attribute. NOTE: this issue has been disputed by other researchers, citing a variable scoping issue and information about the semantics of document.domain

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.22, and other 5 through 6 SP1 versions, sends Referer headers containing https:// URLs in requests for http:// URLs, which allows remote attackers to obtain potentially sensitive information by reading Referer log data.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an invalid src attribute value ("?") in an HTML frame tag that is in a frameset tag with a large rows attribute. NOTE: The provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information.

Unspecified versions of Internet Explorer allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an IFRAME with a src tag containing a "File://" URI followed by an 8-bit character. NOTE: some third parties were unable to verify this issue.

Internet Explorer 5.0 through 6.0 allows remote attackers to determine the existence of files on the client via an IMG tag with a dynsrc property that references the target file, which sets certain elements of the image object such as file size.

jscript.dll in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a Shockwave Flash object that contains ActionScript code that calls VBScript, which in turn calls the Javascript document.write function, which triggers a null dereference.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by setting the location or URL property of a MHTMLFile ActiveX object.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0.2900.2180 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via a long Unicode string argument to the write method, a related issue to CVE-2009-2479. NOTE: it was later reported that 7.0.6000.16473 and earlier are also affected.

Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer in Windows 2000 SP1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a malformed Windows Metafile (WMF) file.

The file upload control in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5, and 6.0 allows remote attackers to automatically upload files from the local system via a web page containing a script to upload the files.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0.2600 on Windows XP allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (browser crash) via a shell: URI with double backslashes (\\) in an HTML tag such as IFRAME or A.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 Beta allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a web page with multiple empty APPLET start tags. NOTE: a third party has disputed this issue, stating that the crash does not occur with Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 Beta3

Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5 and 6.0 does not properly handle the Content-Type HTML header field, which allows remote attackers to modify which application is used to process a document.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 Beta3 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a "text/html" HTML Content-type header sent in response to an XMLHttpRequest (AJAX).

Stack consumption vulnerability in Internet Explorer The JavaScript settimeout function in Internet Explorer allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via the JavaScript settimeout function. NOTE: the vendor could not reproduce the problem.

Internet Explorer 5 allows a remote attacker to modify the IE client's proxy configuration via a malicious Web Proxy Auto-Discovery (WPAD) server.

Internet Explorer 4.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via HTML code that contains a long CLASSID parameter in an OBJECT tag.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0.2900.2180 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and application hang) via JavaScript code with a long string value for the hash property (aka location.hash), a related issue to CVE-2008-5715.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 6.0.2900.2180 and 7 through 7.0.6000.16711 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application hang) via a JavaScript loop that configures the home page by using the setHomePage method and a DHTML behavior property.