Check Point Advisories

Internet Explorer Cross Domain Document Switching (MS09-019; CVE-2007-3091)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2009-170
Date Published: 9 Jun 2009
Severity: High
Last Updated: Monday 17 August, 2015
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2007-3091
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75, R71, R70
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description Microsoft Internet Explorer is the most widely used Internet browser. An information disclosure vulnerability has been reported in Microsoft Internet Explorer. The vulnerability is due to a script that can create a race condition that could break the same-origin policy of Internet Explorer and read content from different domains. To trigger this issue, an attacker may create a malicious web page and persuade a user to view it. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability will allow an attacker to view the content in another browser window in another domain or Internet Explorer zone.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block attempts to exploit this vulnerability.

In order for the protection to be activated, update your Security Gateway product to the latest IPS update. For information on how to update IPS, go to SBP-2006-05, click on Protection tab and select the version of your choice.

Security Gateway R80 / R77 / R75 / R71 / R70

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Internet Explorer Cross Domain Document Switching (MS09-019) protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
  2. Install policy on all Security Gateways.

This protection's log will contain the following information:

Attack Name:  Web Client Enforcement Violation.
Attack Information:  Internet Explorer cross domain document switching (MS09-019)

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