Check Point Advisories

Internet Explorer Plugin Loading Address Bar Spoofing (MS06-021; CVE-2006-1626)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2006-215
Date Published: 4 Mar 2010
Severity: High
Last Updated: Thursday 16 January, 2014
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2006-1626
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description Microsoft Internet Explorer is a popular browser that is bundled with the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems. The browser is capable of rendering HTML pages, as well as images and other embedded media, which may be handled by third party plugins. Some of the plugins available to be used with Internet Explorer include the Shockwave Flash plugin and the Adobe Acrobat PDF plugin among others. An address bar spoofing vulnerability exists in the Microsoft Internet Explorer. The vulnerability is due to an improperly handling resources that require a plugin to be processed. This flaw can be used to spoof the address bar of the browser to mislead a user as to the origin of a resource. Upon exploitation, the affected client browser will render a resource from a specific domain while the address bar of the browser will display a different domain, not reflecting the true origin of the resource.

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

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Internet Explorer Plugin Loading Address Bar Spoofing (MS06-021) 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:  Microsoft Internet Explorer plugin loading address bar spoofing (MS06-021)

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