Mozilla Firefox prior 1.0.9 information disclosure

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A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox (Web Browser). It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.9 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.17 allow user-assisted remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a web page with an embedded frame, which causes POST data from an outer page to be sent to the inner frame s URL during a SAVEMODE_FILEONLY save of the inner frame.

The bug was discovered 04/21/2009. The weakness was released 04/22/2009 by Gregory Fleischer (moz_bug_r_a4) with Martijn Wargers (Website). The advisory is shared at redhat.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2009-1311 since 04/16/2009. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1592 for this issue.

The exploit is available at securityfocus.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 43743 (CentOS 4 / 5 : firefox (CESA-2009:0436)), 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 119091 (Red Hat Update for Xulrunner Firefox (RHSA-2009:0436)).

Upgrading to version 1.0.9 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 1 days after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (50057) and Tenable (43743). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at 46674, 48897, 48896 and 47862.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 4.8

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Class: Information disclosure
CWE: CWE-200 / CWE-284 / CWE-266
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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Nessus ID: 43743
Nessus Name: CentOS 4 / 5 : firefox (CESA-2009:0436)
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OpenVAS ID: 63962
OpenVAS Name: Debian Security Advisory DSA 1797-1 (xulrunner)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Firefox 1.0.9

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mozilla.org
Product: mozilla.org

Advisory: redhat.com
Researcher: Gregory Fleischer (moz_bug_r_a4)
Organization: Martijn Wargers
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2009-1311 (🔍)
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X-Force: 50057
SecurityTracker: 1022097
Vulnerability Center: 21688 - Mozilla Firefox < 3.0.9 and SeaMonkey < 1.1.17 POST Data Remote Information Disclosure Vulnerability, Medium
SecurityFocus: 34656 - Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird/SeaMonkey MFSA 2009 -14 through -22 Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 34758
OSVDB: 53953 - CVE-2009-1311 - Mozilla - Firefox and SeaMonkey - Information Disclosure Issue
Vupen: ADV-2009-1125

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Entryinfo

Created: 03/17/2015 23:38
Updated: 09/02/2019 09:51
Changes: 03/17/2015 23:38 (90), 09/02/2019 09:51 (4)
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