Microsoft Internet Explorer 5/6 - Cookie Disclosure/Modification

Author: Jouko Pynnonen
type: remote
platform: windows
port: 
date_added: 2001-11-09 
date_updated: 2012-09-07 
verified: 1 
codes: CVE-2001-0722;OSVDB-1982 
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source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3513/info

Internet Explorer contains a vulnerability, which could allow an attacker to construct a URL that would display or modify the cookie information associated with an arbitrary website.

If a URL is composed in the about: protocol referencing a website, Javascript embedded in the URL can access any cookies associated with that website via 'document.cookie'. The Javascript executes because of a cross-site scripting condition in the about: protocol.

about://www.google.com/<script language=javascript>alert(document.cookie);</script>