A vulnerability has been identified in Microsoft Internet Explorer, which could be exploited by remote attackers to bypass security restrictions and gain knowledge of sensitive information. This issue is caused by a race condition when navigating from a web page to a third-party web site, which could be exploited by remote attackers bypass the cross-domain security model, and manipulate data or steal authentication cookies from arbitrary domains by tricking a user into visiting a specially crafted web page.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Michal Zalewski.
ChangeLog
2007-06-05 : Initial release
2007-06-12 : Updated Solution
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