Vulnerabilities > CVE-2006-2384 - Information Exposure vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
MEDIUM Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
PARTIAL Availability impact
NONE Summary
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 SP4 and 6 SP1 and earlier allows remote attackers to conduct spoofing and phishing attacks by using a modal browser window in a way that preserves the original address bar and trusted UI of a trusted site, even after the browser has been navigated to a malicious site, aka the "Address Bar Spoofing Vulnerability."
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 7 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Subverting Environment Variable Values The attacker directly or indirectly modifies environment variables used by or controlling the target software. The attacker's goal is to cause the target software to deviate from its expected operation in a manner that benefits the attacker.
- Footprinting An attacker engages in probing and exploration activity to identify constituents and properties of the target. Footprinting is a general term to describe a variety of information gathering techniques, often used by attackers in preparation for some attack. It consists of using tools to learn as much as possible about the composition, configuration, and security mechanisms of the targeted application, system or network. Information that might be collected during a footprinting effort could include open ports, applications and their versions, network topology, and similar information. While footprinting is not intended to be damaging (although certain activities, such as network scans, can sometimes cause disruptions to vulnerable applications inadvertently) it may often pave the way for more damaging attacks.
- Exploiting Trust in Client (aka Make the Client Invisible) An attack of this type exploits a programs' vulnerabilities in client/server communication channel authentication and data integrity. It leverages the implicit trust a server places in the client, or more importantly, that which the server believes is the client. An attacker executes this type of attack by placing themselves in the communication channel between client and server such that communication directly to the server is possible where the server believes it is communicating only with a valid client. There are numerous variations of this type of attack.
- Browser Fingerprinting An attacker carefully crafts small snippets of Java Script to efficiently detect the type of browser the potential victim is using. Many web-based attacks need prior knowledge of the web browser including the version of browser to ensure successful exploitation of a vulnerability. Having this knowledge allows an attacker to target the victim with attacks that specifically exploit known or zero day weaknesses in the type and version of the browser used by the victim. Automating this process via Java Script as a part of the same delivery system used to exploit the browser is considered more efficient as the attacker can supply a browser fingerprinting method and integrate it with exploit code, all contained in Java Script and in response to the same web page request by the browser.
- Session Credential Falsification through Prediction This attack targets predictable session ID in order to gain privileges. The attacker can predict the session ID used during a transaction to perform spoofing and session hijacking.
Nessus
| NASL family | Windows : Microsoft Bulletins |
| NASL id | SMB_NT_MS06-021.NASL |
| description | The remote host is missing the IE cumulative security update 916281. The remote version of IE is vulnerable to several flaws that could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the remote host. |
| last seen | 2020-06-01 |
| modified | 2020-06-02 |
| plugin id | 21685 |
| published | 2006-06-13 |
| reporter | This script is Copyright (C) 2006-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc. |
| source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/21685 |
| title | MS06-021: Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (916281) |
| code | |
Oval
accepted 2011-05-16T04:01:06.191-04:00 class vulnerability contributors name Robert L. Hollis organization ThreatGuard, Inc. name Jonathan Baker organization The MITRE Corporation name Sudhir Gandhe organization Telos name Shane Shaffer organization G2, Inc.
description Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 SP4 and 6 SP1 and earlier allows remote attackers to conduct spoofing and phishing attacks by using a modal browser window in a way that preserves the original address bar and trusted UI of a trusted site, even after the browser has been navigated to a malicious site, aka the "Address Bar Spoofing Vulnerability." family windows id oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1478 status accepted submitted 2006-06-14T09:55:00.000-04:00 title Address Bar Spoofing Vulnerability (WinS03) version 68 accepted 2014-02-24T04:00:20.181-05:00 class vulnerability contributors name Robert L. Hollis organization ThreatGuard, Inc. name Robert L. Hollis organization ThreatGuard, Inc. name Anna Min organization BigFix, Inc name Sudhir Gandhe organization Telos name Shane Shaffer organization G2, Inc. name Maria Mikhno organization ALTX-SOFT
description Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 SP4 and 6 SP1 and earlier allows remote attackers to conduct spoofing and phishing attacks by using a modal browser window in a way that preserves the original address bar and trusted UI of a trusted site, even after the browser has been navigated to a malicious site, aka the "Address Bar Spoofing Vulnerability." family windows id oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1567 status accepted submitted 2006-06-14T09:55:00.000-04:00 title Address Bar Spoofing Vulnerability (Win2K) version 71 accepted 2011-05-16T04:01:29.563-04:00 class vulnerability contributors name Robert L. Hollis organization ThreatGuard, Inc. name Sudhir Gandhe organization Telos name Shane Shaffer organization G2, Inc.
description Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 SP4 and 6 SP1 and earlier allows remote attackers to conduct spoofing and phishing attacks by using a modal browser window in a way that preserves the original address bar and trusted UI of a trusted site, even after the browser has been navigated to a malicious site, aka the "Address Bar Spoofing Vulnerability." family windows id oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1646 status accepted submitted 2006-06-14T09:55:00.000-04:00 title Address Bar Spoofing Vulnerability (64-bit XP) version 68 accepted 2011-05-16T04:01:35.909-04:00 class vulnerability contributors name Robert L. Hollis organization ThreatGuard, Inc. name Dragos Prisaca organization Gideon Technologies, Inc. name Sudhir Gandhe organization Telos name Shane Shaffer organization G2, Inc.
description Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 SP4 and 6 SP1 and earlier allows remote attackers to conduct spoofing and phishing attacks by using a modal browser window in a way that preserves the original address bar and trusted UI of a trusted site, even after the browser has been navigated to a malicious site, aka the "Address Bar Spoofing Vulnerability." family windows id oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1686 status accepted submitted 2006-06-14T09:55:00.000-04:00 title Address Bar Spoofing Vulnerability (XP,SP2) version 69 accepted 2014-02-24T04:00:23.625-05:00 class vulnerability contributors name Robert L. Hollis organization ThreatGuard, Inc. name Robert L. Hollis organization ThreatGuard, Inc. name Sudhir Gandhe organization Telos name Shane Shaffer organization G2, Inc. name Maria Mikhno organization ALTX-SOFT
description Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 SP4 and 6 SP1 and earlier allows remote attackers to conduct spoofing and phishing attacks by using a modal browser window in a way that preserves the original address bar and trusted UI of a trusted site, even after the browser has been navigated to a malicious site, aka the "Address Bar Spoofing Vulnerability." family windows id oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1775 status accepted submitted 2006-06-14T09:55:00.000-04:00 title Address Bar Spoofing Vulnerability (2K/XP) version 71 accepted 2011-05-16T04:01:50.584-04:00 class vulnerability contributors name Robert L. Hollis organization ThreatGuard, Inc. name Sudhir Gandhe organization Telos name Shane Shaffer organization G2, Inc.
description Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 SP4 and 6 SP1 and earlier allows remote attackers to conduct spoofing and phishing attacks by using a modal browser window in a way that preserves the original address bar and trusted UI of a trusted site, even after the browser has been navigated to a malicious site, aka the "Address Bar Spoofing Vulnerability." family windows id oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1788 status accepted submitted 2006-06-14T09:55:00.000-04:00 title Address Bar Spoofing Vulnerability (S03,SP1) version 68
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18321
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1016291
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20595
- http://www.osvdb.org/26445
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2319
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26777
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1788
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1775
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1686
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1646
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1567
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1478
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2006/ms06-021