Mozilla Firefox up to 3.0.10 information disclosure

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Mozilla Firefox up to 3.0.10 (Web Browser). This vulnerability affects an unknown code block. 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. CVE summarizes:

Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.11 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.17 associate local documents with external domain names located after the file:// substring in a URL, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to read arbitrary cookies via a crafted HTML document, as demonstrated by a URL with file://example.com/C:/ at the beginning.

The bug was discovered 06/11/2009. The weakness was disclosed 06/12/2009 by Gregory Fleischer (Website). The advisory is shared for download at rhn.redhat.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2009-1835 since 05/29/2009. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1592.

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 $25k-$100k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 43755 (CentOS 5 : firefox (CESA-2009:1095)), 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 116484 (Red Hat Update for Xulrunner Firefox (RHSA-2009:1095-1)).

Upgrading to version 1.0.9 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 7 days after the disclosure of the vulnerability. Furthermore it is possible to detect and prevent this kind of attack with TippingPoint and the filter 6825.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (51072) and Tenable (43755). The entries 48599, 48598, 48597 and 48596 are pretty similar.

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Class: Information disclosure
CWE: CWE-200 / CWE-284 / CWE-266
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Status: Proof-of-Concept

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Nessus ID: 43755
Nessus Name: CentOS 5 : firefox (CESA-2009:1095)
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OpenVAS ID: 64254
OpenVAS Name: Debian Security Advisory DSA 1820-1 (xulrunner)
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Upgrade: Firefox 1.0.9
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03/17/2015 +1896 days 🔍
09/06/2019 +1634 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mozilla.org
Product: mozilla.org

Advisory: rhn.redhat.com
Researcher: Gregory Fleischer
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2009-1835 (🔍)
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X-Force: 51072
Vulnerability Center: 22534 - Mozilla Firefox and SeaMonkey Local Files Resources Obtain Cookies Information Vulnerability, Medium
SecurityFocus: 35391 - Mozilla Firefox/SeaMonkey 'file://' URI Information Disclosure Vulnerability
Secunia: 35331
OSVDB: 55161 - Mozilla Multiple Products file: Resource Cross Domain Arbitrary Cookie Access
Vupen: ADV-2009-1572

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Created: 03/17/2015 23:38
Updated: 09/06/2019 09:10
Changes: 03/17/2015 23:38 (81), 09/06/2019 09:10 (6)
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