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0
Severity
2.6
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Internet Explorer 4.x and 5.x does not properly re-validate an SSL certificate if the user establishes a new SSL session with the same server during the same Internet Explorer session, aka one of two different "SSL Certificate Validation" vulnerabilities.

First published (updated )
Severity
2.6
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Internet Explorer 4.x and 5.x does not properly verify all contents of an SSL certificate if a connection is made to the server via an image or a frame, aka one of two different "SSL Certificate Validation" vulnerabilities.

First published (updated )
Severity
2.6
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

The IFRAME of the WebBrowser control in Internet Explorer 5.01 allows a remote attacker to violate the cross frame security policy via the NavigateComplete2 event.

First published (updated )
Severity
5.1
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Internet Explorer 4.x and 5.x does not properly verify the domain of a frame within a browser window, which allows a remote attacker to read client files via the frame, aka the "Frame Domain Verification" vulnerability.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.6
Buffer Overflow
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Internet Explorer 4.x and 5.x allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a buffer overflow in the ActiveX parameter parsing capability, aka the "Malformed Component Attribute" vulnerability.

First published (updated )
Severity
2.6
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Internet Explorer 4.0 and 5.0 allows a malicious web site to obtain client cookies from another domain by including that domain name and escaped characters in a URL, aka the "Unauthorized Cookie Access" vulnerability.

First published (updated )
Severity
5.1
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

A Microsoft ActiveX control allows a remote attacker to execute a malicious cabinet file via an attachment and an embedded script in an HTML mail, aka the "Active Setup Control" vulnerability.

First published (updated )
Severity
5.1
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Internet Explorer 4.x and 5.x allows remote web servers to access files on the client that are outside of its security domain, aka the "Image Source Redirect" vulnerability.

First published (updated )
Severity
5.1
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

The Microsoft virtual machine (VM) in Internet Explorer 4.x and 5.x allows a remote attacker to read files via a malicious Java applet that escapes the Java sandbox, aka the "VM File Reading" vulnerability.

First published (updated )
Severity
10
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Internet Explorer 5 does not modify the security zone for a document that is being loaded into a window until after the document has been loaded, which could allow remote attackers to execute Javascript in a different security context while the document is loading.

First published (updated )
Severity
2.6
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Internet Explorer 5.0 and 5.01 allows remote attackers to bypass the cross frame security policy and read files via the external.NavigateAndFind function.

First published (updated )
Severity
5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

When a Web site redirects the browser to another site, Internet Explorer 3.02 and 4.0 automatically resends authentication information to the second site, aka the "Page Redirect Issue."

First published (updated )
Severity
5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Internet Explorer 4.0 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary text and HTML files on the user's machine via a small IFRAME that uses Dynamic HTML (DHTML) to send the data to the attacker, aka the Freiburg text-viewing issue.

First published (updated )
Severity
2.6
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Internet Explorer 4 allows remote attackers (malicious web site operators) to read the contents of the clipboard via the Internet WebBrowser ActiveX object.

First published (updated )
Severity
5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Internet Explorer 4.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via HTML code that contains a long CLASSID parameter in an OBJECT tag.

First published (updated )
Severity
5.1
Buffer Overflow
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Buffer overflow in the Window.External function in the JScript Scripting Engine in Internet Explorer 4.01 SP1 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a malicious web page.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Internet Explorer 4 treats a 32-bit number ("dotless IP address") in the a URL as the hostname instead of an IP address, which causes IE to apply Local Intranet Zone settings to the resulting web page, allowing remote malicious web servers to conduct unauthorized activities by using URLs that contain the dotless IP address for their server.

First published (updated )
Severity
10
Buffer Overflow
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Buffer overflow in the HTML library used by Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, and Windows Explorer via the res: local resource protocol.

First published (updated )
Severity
5.1
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

The Preloader ActiveX control used by Internet Explorer allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files.

First published (updated )
Severity
10
Buffer Overflow
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Buffer overflow in Internet Explorer 4.0 via EMBED tag.

First published (updated )
Severity
2.6
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Internet Explorer 3.x to 4.01 allows a remote attacker to insert malicious content into a frame of another web site, aka frame spoofing.

First published (updated )
Severity
2.6
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Internet Explorer 4.0 and 4.01 allow a remote attacker to read files via IE's cross frame security, aka the "Cross Frame Navigate" vulnerability.

First published (updated )
Severity
2.6
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

By default, Internet Explorer 5.0 and other versions enables the "Navigate sub-frames across different domains" option, which allows frame spoofing.

First published (updated )
Severity
4
Buffer Overflow
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Buffer overflow in the Eyedog ActiveX control allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands.

First published (updated )
Severity
5.1
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

The scriptlet.typelib ActiveX control is marked as "safe for scripting" for Internet Explorer, which allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands as demonstrated by Bubbleboy.

First published (updated )
Severity
4
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

The Eyedog ActiveX control is marked as "safe for scripting" for Internet Explorer, which allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands as demonstrated by Bubbleboy.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Internet Explorer 4.0 and 5.0 allows a remote attacker to execute security scripts in a different security context using malicious URLs, a variant of the "cross frame" vulnerability.

First published (updated )
Severity
2.6
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

The DHTML Edit ActiveX control in Internet Explorer allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

MSHTML.DLL in Internet Explorer 5.0 allows a remote attacker to learn information about a local user's files via an IMG SRC tag.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Internet Explorer 4.x or 5.x with Word 97 allows arbitrary execution of Visual Basic programs to the IE client through the Word 97 template, which doesn't warn the user that the template contains executable content. Also applies to Outlook when the client views a malicious email message.

First published (updated )

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