National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-1961
Original release date:08/10/2011
Last revised:10/05/2011
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The telnet URI handler in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 9 does not properly launch the handler application, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary programs via a crafted web site, aka "Telnet Handler Remote Code Execution Vulnerability."
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA11-221A
Name: TA11-221A
External Source: MS
Name: MS11-057
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12684
External Source: JVNDB
Name: JVNDB-2011-000060
External Source: JVN
Name: JVN#80404511
References to Check Content
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12684
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
