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>> Microsoft Outlook and Mail Security Bypass Vulnerability (MS08-048)
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Title : Microsoft Outlook and Mail Security Bypass Vulnerability (MS08-048)
Advisory ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-2352
CVE ID : GENERIC-MAP-NOMATCH
CWE ID : CWE-20
Rated as : Moderate Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-08-12
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A vulnerability has been identified in Microsoft Windows, which could be exploited by remote attackers to bypass security restrictions and gain knowledge of sensitive information. This issue is caused by an error in the Windows MHTML protocol handler that does not properly interpret HTTP headers for MHTML content when parsing URLs, which could cause a malicious redirection to bypass Internet Explorer domain restrictions and allow an attacker to read data from another Internet Explorer domain or the local computer.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Jorge Luis Alvarez Medina (Core Security Technologies).
ChangeLog
2008-08-12 : Initial release
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