Microsoft Internet Explorer

Argument injection vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6 for Windows XP SP2 allows user-assisted remote attackers to modify command line arguments to an invoked mail client via " (double quote) characters in a mailto: scheme handler, as demonstrated by launching Microsoft Outlook with an arbitrary filename as an attachment. NOTE: it is not clear whether this issue is implementation-specific or a problem in the Microsoft API.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 SP2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a frameset with only one frame that calls resizeTo with certain arguments. NOTE: this issue might be related to CVE-2006-3637.

The JavaScript implementation in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0 and earlier does not properly restrict the set of values contained in the object returned by the getComputedStyle method, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information about visited web pages by calling this method.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 SP2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and application crash) via two embedded files that call each other.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by accessing the object references of a FolderItem ActiveX object, which triggers a null dereference in the security check.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service via an infinite loop for modeless dialogs showModelessDialog, which causes CPU usage while the focus for the dialog is not released.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0, 5.01, and 5.5 allows remote attackers to monitor the contents of the clipboard via the getData method of the clipboardData object.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 and 9 allows remote attackers to bypass the ASLR protection mechanism via a crafted web site, aka "Internet Explorer ASLR Bypass Vulnerability."

Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6.0 allows remote attackers to steal potentially sensitive information from cookies via a cookie that contains script which is executed when a page is loaded, aka the "Script within Cookies Reading Cookies" vulnerability.

Internet Explorer 5.5 does not display the Class ID (CLSID) when it is at the end of the file name, which could allow attackers to trick the user into executing dangerous programs by making it appear that the document is of a safe file type.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0.7100.0 on Windows 7 RC on the x64 platform allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a certain DIV element in conjunction with SCRIPT elements that have empty contents and no reference to a valid external script location.

Certain versions of Internet Explorer 5 and 6, in certain Windows environments, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (freeze) via a URL to C:\aux (MS-DOS device name) and possibly other devices.

Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP SP2 allows remote attackers to spoof the domain name of a URL in a titlebar for a script-initiated popup window, which could facilitate phishing attacks.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 and 6.0 SP1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via an HTML page with an A tag containing a long title attribute. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0.2900.2180, 7, and 8.0.7600.16385 executes a mail application in situations where an IFRAME element has a mailto: URL in its SRC attribute, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive application launches) via an HTML document with many IFRAME elements.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 allows remote attackers to determine the existence of page history via the history.length JavaScript variable.

Windows Media Player ActiveX object as used in Internet Explorer 5.0 returns a specific error code when a file does not exist, which allows remote malicious web sites to determine the existence of files on the client.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 9 does not prevent capture of data about the times of Same Origin Policy violations during IFRAME loading attempts, which makes it easier for remote attackers to determine whether a document exists in the browser cache via crafted JavaScript code.

Microsoft MSN Messenger 9.0 and Internet Explorer 6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an image with an ICC Profile with a large Tag Count.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0.1 through 6.0 on Windows 2000 or Windows XP allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an OBJECT tag that contains a crafted CLASSID (CLSID) value of "CLSID:00022613-0000-0000-C000-000000000046".

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 omits high-bit URL-encoded characters when displaying the address bar, which allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar via a URL with a domain name that differs from an important domain name only in these characters, as demonstrated by using exam%A9ple.com to spoof example.com, aka MSRC ticket MSRC7900.

Directory traversal vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5, and 6.0 allows remote malicious FTP servers to overwrite arbitrary files via .. (dot dot) sequences in filenames returned from a LIST command.

Microsoft HTML control as used in (1) Internet Explorer 5.0, (2) FrontPage Express, (3) Outlook Express 5, and (4) Eudora, and possibly others, allows remote malicious web site or HTML emails to cause a denial of service (100% CPU consumption) via large HTML form fields such as text inputs in a table cell.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 on Windows 98 allows remote web pages to cause a denial of service (hang) via extremely long values for form fields such as INPUT and TEXTAREA, which can be automatically filled via Javascript.

When a Web site redirects the browser to another site, Internet Explorer 3.02 and 4.0 automatically resends authentication information to the second site, aka the "Page Redirect Issue."

Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6 with the Q312461 (MS01-055) patch modifies the HTTP_USER_AGENT (UserAgent) information that indicates that the patch has been installed, which could allow remote malicious web sites to more easily identify and exploit vulnerable clients.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 and earlier allows malicious website operators to cause a denial of service (client crash) via JavaScript that continually refreshes the window via self.location.

Internet Explorer 5.5 and earlier does not properly verify the domain of a frame within a browser window, which allows remote web site operators to read certain files on the client by sending information from a local frame to a frame in a different domain using MSScriptControl.ScriptControl and GetObject, aka a variant of the "Frame Domain Verification" vulnerability.

Internet Explorer 5.5 and earlier does not properly verify the domain of a frame within a browser window, which allows remote web site operators to read certain files on the client by sending information from a local frame to a frame in a different domain, aka a variant of the "Frame Domain Verification" vulnerability.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0, when handling an expired CA-CERT in a webserver's certificate chain during a SSL/TLS handshake, does not prompt the user before searching for and finding a newer certificate, which may allow attackers to perform a man-in-the-middle attack. NOTE: it is not clear whether this poses a vulnerability.

The NPSVG3.dll ActiveX control for Adobe SVG Viewer 3.02 and earlier, when running on Internet Explorer, allows remote attackers to determine the existence of arbitrary files by setting the src property to the target filename and using Javascript to determine if the web page immediately stops loading, which indicates whether the file exists or not.

Microsoft Internet Explorer allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash from memory consumption), as demonstrated using Javascript code that continuously creates nested arrays and then sorts the newly created arrays.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 does not properly handle certain character strings in the Path attribute, which can cause it to modify cookies in other domains when the attacker's domain name is within the target's domain name or when wildcard DNS is being used, which allows remote attackers to hijack web sessions.

Microsoft Internet Explorer allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a Javascript src attribute that recursively loads the current web page.

osCommerce 2.3.4.1 has an incomplete '.htaccess' for blacklist filtering in the "product" page. The .htaccess file in catalog/images/ bans the html extension, but Internet Explorer render HTML elements in a .eml file.

Internet Explorer on Windows XP does not properly modify the "Drag and Drop or copy and paste files" setting when the user sets it to "Disable" or "Prompt," which may enable security-sensitive operations that are inconsistent with the user's intended configuration.

Internet Explorer 5.0 records the username and password for FTP servers in the URL history, which could allow (1) local users to read the information from another user's index.dat, or (2) people who are physically observing ("shoulder surfing") another user to read the information from the status bar when the user moves the mouse over a link.

Microsoft Windows XP Professional upgrade edition overwrites previously installed patches for Internet Explorer 6.0, leaving Internet Explorer unpatched.

Internet Explorer 5.0 does not properly reset the username/password cache for Web sites that do not use standard cache controls, which could allow users on the same system to access restricted web sites that were visited by other users.

The TLS protocol 1.2 and earlier, when a DHE_EXPORT ciphersuite is enabled on a server but not on a client, does not properly convey a DHE_EXPORT choice, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to conduct cipher-downgrade attacks by rewriting a ClientHello with DHE replaced by DHE_EXPORT and then rewriting a ServerHello with DHE_EXPORT replaced by DHE, aka the "Logjam" issue.