Overview
Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) may handle malformed Internet pages accessed through the NetBIOS protocol as if they belong to the IE's Intranet or Trusted Sites security zones, instead of the more restrictive Internet security zone.
Description
If a user views a page on the Internet that has been malformed in a certain way to exploit the client's particular configuration, then IE may render the page using the less restrictive security settings of the Intranet zone or the Trusted Sites zone. This vulnerability cannot be exploited unless the user views the page using the NetBIOS protocol instead of HTTP. |
Impact
A malicious web page may be rendered on the client host using less restrictive security settings than are appropriate for Internet pages. The specific impacts depend on the privileges specified in the client's settings for the Intranet and Trusted Sites zones. |
Solution
Apply a patch from your vendor See Microsoft Security Bulletin MS02-023 for more information: |
Disable NetBIOS access to external networks. |
Vendor Information
CVSS Metrics
| Group | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|
| Base | ||
| Temporal | ||
| Environmental |
References
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Microsoft for reporting this vulnerability.
This document was written by Shawn Van Ittersum.
Other Information
| CVE IDs: | CVE-2002-0190 |
| Severity Metric: | 2.99 |
| Date Public: | 2002-05-15 |
| Date First Published: | 2002-05-30 |
| Date Last Updated: | 2002-08-26 18:03 UTC |
| Document Revision: | 17 |