Description
Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6.0 allows remote attackers to bypass the cross-domain security model and access information on the local system or in other domains, and possibly execute code, via cached methods and objects, aka "Cross Domain Verification via Cached Methods."
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Exploit-DB 1
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5/6 - Cached Objects Zone Bypass EDB-21959 · remote · Oct 22, 2002 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- 6028 vdb-entry
- MS02-066 vendor-advisory
- 20021022 Vulnerable cached objects in IE (9 advisories in 1) mailing-list
- ie-cache-showmodaldialog-dom-access(10432) vdb-entry
- ie-cache-getelementsbytagname-dom-access(10438) vdb-entry
- ie-cache-getelementsbyname-dom-access(10437) vdb-entry
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:388 vdb-entry signature
- ie-cache-getelementbyid-dom-access(10436) vdb-entry
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:408 vdb-entry signature
- ie-cache-elementfrompoint-dom-access(10435) vdb-entry
- http://security.greymagic.com/adv/gm012-ie/
- N-018 third-party-advisory government-resource
- ie-cache-execcommand-dom-access(10439) vdb-entry