Georgi Guninski security advisory #24, 2000



IE 5.5/Outlook java security vulnerability - reading arbitrary local

files and URLs



Systems affected:

IE 5.5/Outlook/Outlook Express - probably other versions, have not

tested



Risk: High

Date: 18 October 2000



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Description:



There is a security vulnerability in IE 5.5/Outlook/Outlook Express

which allows

reading local files, arbitrary URLs and local directory structure after

viewing a

web page or reading HTML message.



Details:

The problem is the possibility for specifying arbitrary codebase for an

applet

loaded from