Unscored CVE-2004-1686 EUVD-2004-1680GHSA-rc47-jfx2-55pr

Internet Explorer 6.0 in Windows XP SP2 allows remote attackers to bypass the Information Bar prompt for ActiveX and Javascript via an XHTM…

Published Feb 20, 2005 · Updated Aug 8, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

Internet Explorer 6.0 in Windows XP SP2 allows remote attackers to bypass the Information Bar prompt for ActiveX and Javascript via an XHTML page that contains an Internet Explorer formatted comment between the DOCTYPE tag and the HTML tag, as demonstrated using the DesignScience MathPlayer ActiveX plugin.

References

20040915 IE6 + XP SP2 Vulnerability mailing-list
ie-information-bar-bypass(20617) vdb-entry
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