Mozilla Firefox up to 1.0 authentication spoofing

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Mozilla Firefox up to 1.0 (Web Browser). This affects an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a authentication spoofing vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-290. This attack-focused weakness is caused by incorrectly implemented authentication schemes that are subject to spoofing attacks. This is going to have an impact on integrity. The summary by CVE is:

Firefox before 1.0.1 and Mozilla before 1.7.6, when displaying the HTTP Authentication dialog, do not change the focus to the tab that generated the prompt, which could facilitate spoofing and phishing attacks.

The bug was discovered 03/01/2005. The weakness was published 05/02/2005 by Juha-Matti Laurio with Mozilla as Bug 277574 as not defined bug report (Bugzilla). The advisory is shared at bugzilla.mozilla.org. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2005-0584 since 02/28/2005. The exploitability is told to be difficult. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 58 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 21930 (CentOS 3 : mozilla (CESA-2005:384)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family CentOS Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 117973 (CentOS Security Update for Mozilla (CESA-2005:384)).

Upgrading to version 1.0.1 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published even before and not after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (19526) and Tenable (21930). Similar entries are available at 921, 949, 1115 and 1185.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 3.7
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Class: Authentication spoofing
CWE: CWE-290 / CWE-287
ATT&CK: Unknown

Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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Nessus ID: 21930
Nessus Name: CentOS 3 : mozilla (CESA-2005:384)
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OpenVAS ID: 54875
OpenVAS Name: Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200503-10 (Firefox)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Firefox 1.0.1

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mozilla.org
Product: mozilla.org

Advisory: Bug 277574
Researcher: Juha-Matti Laurio
Organization: Mozilla
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2005-0584 (🔍)
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X-Force: 19526
Vulnerability Center: 7350 - Mozilla and Mozilla Firefox Allow Spoofing via HTTP Authentication Tab, Low
SecurityFocus: 12728 - Mozilla Suite/Firefox HTTP Authentication Dialogs Tab Focus Vulnerability
Secunia: 14407
OSVDB: 14196 - CVE-2005-0584 - Mozilla - Firefox - Spoofing Issue

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Created: 03/10/2015 23:05
Updated: 06/06/2019 09:35
Changes: 03/10/2015 23:05 (75), 06/06/2019 09:35 (10)
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