Check Point Advisories

Microsoft XML Core Services Information Disclosure (MS14-005; CVE-2014-0266)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2014-0884
Date Published: 11 Feb 2014
Severity: High
Last Updated: Thursday 18 February, 2016
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2014-0266
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75, R71, R70
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description An information-disclosure vulnerability has been reported in Microsoft XML Core Services. The vulnerability is caused when Internet Explorer does not properly enforce cross-domain policies, allowing an attacker to access content from different domains. An attacker could exploit the vulnerability by hosting a specially crafted website that is designed to invoke MSXML through Internet Explorer. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could read files on the local file system of the user or read content of web domains where the user is currently authenticated.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block attempts to exploit this vulnerability.

In order for the protection to be activated, update your Security Gateway product to the latest IPS update. For information on how to update IPS, go to SBP-2006-05, click on Protection tab and select the version of your choice.

Security Gateway R80 / R77 / R75 / R71 / R70

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Microsoft XML Core Services Information Disclosure (MS14-005) protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
  2. Install policy on all Security Gateways.

This protection's log will contain the following information:

Attack Name:  Web Client Enforcement Violation.
Attack Information:  Microsoft XML Core Services Information Disclosure (MS14-005)

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