Description
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 SP2 allows remote attackers to spoof a legitimate URL in the status bar and conduct a phishing attack via a web page that contains a BASE element that points to the legitimate site, followed by an anchor (a) element with an empty "href" attribute, and a FORM whose action points to a malicious URL, and an INPUT submit element that is modified to look like a legitimate URL.
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.
Exploit-DB 1
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 - HTML Form Tags URI Obfuscation EDB-24714 · remote · Oct 30, 2004 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- 11273 third-party-advisory
- 20041030 Re: New URL spoofing bug in Microsoft Internet Explorer mailing-list
- ie-ahref-status-spoofing(17938) vdb-entry
- VU#702086 third-party-advisory
- 11565 vdb-entry
- 20060218 Re: Internet Explorer Phishing mouseover issue mailing-list
- 20060223 Re: Internet Explorer Phishing mouseover issue mailing-list