Another Internet Explorer Vulnerability (…sigh)
Well, here we are again. A few weeks after Microsoft pushed out a critical patch to all versions of Internet Explorer, Jorge Luis Alvarez Medina, a security consultant with Core Security Technologies provided details of another attack against the beleaguered browser. This time, an attacker “may be able to access files with an already known file name and location.” If that sounds a bit scary, it should. It falls into a class of attacks called “Local File Disclosure” and can be exploited by sending the victim to a malicious site at attempts to access files stored on your computer. The attacks leverage different design features of Internet Explorer that can be combined to do serious damage. Secunia has rated this as “Moderately critical” More »