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Re: Internet Explorer URL parsing vulnerability

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (soulshok@hippie.dk)
Tue Dec 9 14:22:06 2003

Date: 9 Dec 2003 17:19:57 -0000
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># 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. 
...
># 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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