Description
Internet Explorer 5.01 through 6.0 does not properly perform security checks on certain encoded characters within a URL, which allows a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information from a user by redirecting the user to another site that has that information, aka "Encoded Characters Information Disclosure."
References
- MS02-066 vendor-advisory
- 5610 vdb-entry
- 20020903 MSIEv6 % encoding causes a problem again mailing-list
- ie-sameoriginpolicy-bypass(10039) vdb-entry
- 7845 vdb-entry
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:495 vdb-entry signature
- 20020904 Re: MSIEv6 % encoding causes a problem again mailing-list
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:471 vdb-entry signature
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:143 vdb-entry signature