A Zero-day vulnerability was found in the Internet Explorer and reported to Microsoft. Through the flaw a malicious user is able to hijack cookies and steal credentials. The Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP SP2 and SP3 are only affected by this security flaw. Secunia rates this a moderately critical issue. Since there is not a patch available for IE users it is recommended to use another browser or upgrade to IE 7.
Here is the full article if you want to read more.
August 4, 2008 at 9:03 am
i don’t know why Secunia rated is as moderately critical issue, I would personally rate it highly critical because many people still use IE6 (trust me)…
August 4, 2008 at 12:43 pm
I don’t understand it either .. being able to hijack cookies or steal credentials is a pretty severe vulnerability in my opinion