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TITLE:
Maxthon Security ID Disclosure Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA14918

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/14918/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Maxthon (MyIE2) 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/4110/

DESCRIPTION:
Aviv Raff has reported a vulnerability in Maxthon, which potentially
can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a design error where the security
ID of a plug-in is not properly protected from being included and
accessed on an external website via the script tag. This can e.g. be
exploited to read and write arbitrary files via the "readFile()" and
"writeFile()" API functions via directory traversal attacks.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 1.2.0 and 1.2.1. Prior
versions may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.2.2.
http://www.maxthon.com/download.htm

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Aviv Raff

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.raffon.net/advisories/maxthon/multvulns.html

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