[ISN] JavaScript-in-cookies Netscape security hole

From: Bennett Haselton <bennett_at_PEACEFIRE.ORG>
Date: Wed 19 Apr 2000 - 10:19:39 CDT
http://www.peacefire.org/security/jscookies/

If you have cookies and JavaScript turned on in Communicator 4.x, and
you're running a profile named "default" (most Communicator 4.x
installations are set up that way), a malicious Web site can read any HTML
file on your hard drive (including the user's bookmark file and cache files).

CNet has a write-up at:
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-1717169.html

        -Bennett

bennett_at_peacefire.org     http://www.peacefire.org
(425) 649 9024

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