Netscape Communicator URL Read Vulnerability

 
Aug 07, 2000
A flaw in Netscape Communicator's implementation of Java allows malicious applets to read any resource reachable via a URL from the local machine by using the netscape.net.URLConnection and netscape.net.URLInputSteam classes. This allows malicious applets to read local files as well as download data from hosts that would otherwise be protected by a firewall. Here's more information and a workaround.

Netscape Communicator URL Read Vulnerability


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