CVE-2013-1450 Information disclosure in n/a
Remote attackers can read sensitive cookies via crafted HTML when proxy settings are misconfigured in Internet Explorer.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2013-1450?
CVE-2013-1450 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer, published on 29 Jan 2013. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 and 9, when the Proxy Settings configuration has the same Proxy address and Port values in the HTTP and Secure rows, does not properly reuse TCP sessions to the proxy server, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information intended for a specific host via a crafted HTML document that triggers many HTTPS requests and then triggers an HTTP request to that host, as demonstrated by reading a Cookie header, aka MSRC 12096gd.
Weakness: CWE-16
Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-1450?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Microsoft Internet Explorer.
How do I fix CVE-2013-1450?
No fix has been published for CVE-2013-1450 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2013-1450 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-1450 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Internet Explorer
- CVE-2014-1776 Microsoft Internet Explorer Memory Corruption
- CVE-2021-27085 Microsoft Internet Explorer Remote Code Execution
- CVE-2017-0222 Microsoft Internet Explorer Remote Code Execution
- CVE-2017-0210 Microsoft Internet Explorer Privilege Escalation
- CVE-2017-0149 Microsoft Internet Explorer Memory Corruption
Sources
Also known as GHSA-3q4f-7q63-4qxf.