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Vulnerability Note VU#468843

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 DisableCachingOfSSLPages may not prevent caching

Overview

Setting the Internet Explorer 7 option DisableCachingOfSSLPages may not prevent the caching of SSL-enabled web pages.

I. Description

Administrators and users can set the Internet Explorer DisableCachingOfSSLPages option to prevent sensitive or private data from being saved to disk. The registry key for this setting is:

    HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\InternetSettings\DisableCachingOfSSLPages

After enabling this setting, Internet Explorer 7 may still cache SSL-enabled web pages to disk.

II. Impact

Private or sensitive data may be written to disk inadvertently.

III. Solution

We are currently unaware of a practical solution to this problem.

Secure deletion

Securely deleting or encrypting the Internet Explorer 7 browser cache (%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Low) that contains the sensitive information will mitigate this vulnerability.

Systems Affected

VendorStatusDate NotifiedDate Updated
Microsoft CorporationVulnerable22-Apr-2008

References


http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/c07587ec-4a60-4bca-8508-29a4296b72121033.mspx?mfr=true
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897443.aspx
http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsVista/en/library/58358421-a7f5-4c97-ab41-2bcc61a58a701033.mspx?mfr=true
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/02/09/528963.aspx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_disk_encryption_software

Credit

Thanks to Bill KNox from MITRE for reporting this vulnerability.

This document was written by Ryan Giobbi.

Other Information

Date Public:2008-05-09
Date First Published:2008-05-09
Date Last Updated:2008-05-09
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Metric:2.40
Document Revision:18

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