IE Flaw Turns Your PC into Public File Server

Dogbiscuit · Feb 6, 2010

A security consultant on Wednesday provided a live demonstration at the Black Hat DC conference that immediately prompted a security advisory from Microsoft. Jorge Luis Alvarez Medina, the Argentina-based security consultant with Core Security Technologies, showed attendees that it was possible to use an exploit found in Internet Explorer to remotely read files on a victim's local drive.
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Dogbiscuit · Feb 10, 2010

Disabling UAC in Vista or Windows 7 turns off Protected Mode, and can leave you vulnerable to the flaw. As can simply using IE in Windows XP with default security level settings.

Given the above, unless you have also set the security level for the internet and local intranet security zones to high (not the default) and disabled Active Scripting in both zones, you are vulnerable.

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