Mozilla Firefox up to 1.5 DNS Resolver ap1.com information disclosure
CVSS Meta Temp Score | Current Exploit Price (≈) | CTI Interest Score |
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A vulnerability has been found in Mozilla Firefox up to 1.5 (Web Browser) and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown part of the file ap1.com of the component DNS Resolver. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, and integrity. The summary by CVE is:
Firefox and Mozilla can associate a cookie with multiple domains when the DNS resolver has a non-root domain in its search list, which allows remote attackers to trick a user into accepting a cookie for a hostname formed via search-list expansion of the hostname entered by the user, or steal a cookie for an expanded hostname, as demonstrated by an attacker who operates an ap1.com Internet web site to steal cookies associated with an ap1.com.example.com intranet web site.
The weakness was presented 12/31/2005 (Full-Disclosure). It is possible to read the advisory at archives.neohapsis.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2005-4685 since 01/31/2006. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 05/02/2019). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1592 according to MITRE ATT&CK.
There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.
The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (25291). See 28002 for similar entry.
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CPE 2.3
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Exploiting
Class: Information disclosureCWE: CWE-200 / CWE-284 / CWE-266
ATT&CK: T1592
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Remote: Yes
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Timeline
11/04/2005 🔍12/31/2005 🔍
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Sources
Vendor: mozilla.orgProduct: mozilla.org
Advisory: archives.neohapsis.com
Status: Not defined
CVE: CVE-2005-4685 (🔍)
X-Force: 25291 - Konqueror cookie information disclosure
SecurityFocus: 15331 - Multiple Vendor Web Browser Cookie Hostname Handling Weakness
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Entry
Created: 03/12/2015 11:11Updated: 05/02/2019 07:10
Changes: 03/12/2015 11:11 (51), 05/02/2019 07:10 (6)
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