Re: Internet Explorer and Opera local zone restriction bypass

[Mohsen Hariri <mohsen_hariri@yahoo.com>]

In-Reply-To: <20031024135303.26267.qmail@linuxmail.org>

It worked for me- IE6 on XP-SP1.

but it seems to be a Flash Player MX plugin 
bug than IE bug, cause it stores cookies(
flash documents call it SharedObject) on
disk, in a fixed location.

bye


>Subject: Internet Explorer and Opera local zone restriction bypass
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>Internet Explorer and Opera local zone restriction bypass.
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>Vendor Information:
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>Homepage : http://www.microsoft.com
>Vendor : informed
>Mailed advisory: 23/10/03
>Vender Response : None yet
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>Affected Versions:
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>All version of IE 6
>Possibly 5.x too
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>Description:
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>Microsoft Internet Explorer does not allow local file access by a remote host 
>by default.
>By creating an iframe which points on a specially crafted cgi script (using 
>the location header 
>to confuse IE), it is possible to cause IE to execute any local file through 
>the iframe with local 
>zone restrictions. This then allows remote arbitrary file execution on the 
>victim without having
>the victim do a thing except load the page.
>Opera seems to not only be affected by this vulnerability, but it also allows 
>direct
>local file access through iframes without any cgi scripts. Unlike IE where it 
>is possible
>to set activex objects to execute arbitrary files, in Opera it is not. There 
>may be a way,
>but I am currently not aware of any.
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>Exploit:
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>I have created a proof of concept page, but I did not show or explain how the 
>cgi scripts
>nor the flash file work exactly to prevent kiddie abuse.
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>For IE: http://www.mlsecurity.com/ie/ie.htm
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>For Opera: <iframe name="abc" src="file:///C:/"></iframe>
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>Solution:
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>Check Microsoft's website frequently until a new patch comes out.
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>Contact:
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>- Mindwarper
>- mindwarper@linuxmail.org
>- http://mlsecurity.com
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