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Re: Internet Explorer URL parsing vulnerability


From: <soulshok () hippie dk>
Date: 9 Dec 2003 17:19:57 -0000

In-Reply-To: <20031209144416.31613.qmail () sf-www2-symnsj securityfocus com>

# Exploit ##########
By opening a window using the http://user@domain nomenclature an attacker can hide the real location of the page by 
including a 0x01 character after the "@" character.
Internet Explorer doesn't display the rest of the URL making the page appear to be at a different domain. 
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# Tested ##########
Internet Explorer
Version 6.0.2800.1106C0
Updates: SP1, Q810847, Q810351, Q822925, Q330994, Q828750, Q824145

Internet Explorer 5.00.3700.1000 (SP4, Q824145) doesn't seem to be vunlerable to this.


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