Internet Explorer 8 Beta Inline URL Spoofing Vulnerability

(C) SecNiche Security

Aditya K Sood

It is possible for an attacker to launch a spoofing attack,a situation in which one person or program successfully masquerades as another by falsifying data and thereby gaining an illegitimate advantage. Different variants of spoofing can be:

1 Man-in-the-middle attack and internet protocol spoofing
2 URL spoofing and phishing
3 Referer spoofing
4 Poisoning of file-sharing networks
5 Caller ID spoofing
6 E-mail address spoofing

It has been tested on Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox which interpreted the links effectively. The window status bar fetch the desired URL as per security concern.