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A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox (Web Browser). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a authentication spoofing vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-290. This attack-focused weakness is caused by incorrectly implemented authentication schemes that are subject to spoofing attacks. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:
Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.16 and 3.5.x before 3.5.6, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.1, allows remote attackers to spoof an SSL indicator for an http URL or a file URL by setting document.location to an https URL corresponding to a site that responds with a No Content (aka 204) status code and an empty body.
The weakness was disclosed 12/17/2009 by Morgan (Website). The advisory is available at vupen.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2009-3984 since 11/19/2009. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.
It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 43355 (CentOS 4 : seamonkey (CESA-2009:1673)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family CentOS Local Security Checks. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 165665 (SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update Mozilla Firefox (SUSE-SA:2009:063)).
Upgrading to version 1.0.9 eliminates this vulnerability.
The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (54806) and Tenable (43355). The entries 4073, 51185, 51184 and 51183 are pretty similar.
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CPE 2.3
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Exploiting
Class: Authentication spoofingCWE: CWE-290 / CWE-287
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Local: No
Remote: Yes
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Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Nessus ID: 43355
Nessus Name: CentOS 4 : seamonkey (CESA-2009:1673)
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OpenVAS ID: 66594
OpenVAS Name: Debian Security Advisory DSA 1956-1 (xulrunner)
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Countermeasures
Recommended: UpgradeStatus: 🔍
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Upgrade: Firefox 1.0.9
Timeline
11/19/2009 🔍12/15/2009 🔍
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12/16/2009 🔍
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03/18/2015 🔍
08/30/2021 🔍
Sources
Vendor: mozilla.orgProduct: mozilla.org
Advisory: vupen.com⛔
Researcher: Morgan
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2009-3984 (🔍)
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X-Force: 54806
SecurityTracker: 1023342 - Mozilla Firefox Lets Remote Users Spoof URL Status and Contents
Vulnerability Center: 24402 - Mozilla Firefox and SeaMonkey Document.Location SSL Indicator Spoofing Vulnerability, Medium
SecurityFocus: 37367 - Mozilla Firefox and Sea Monkey Insecure Protocol Location Bar Spoofing Vulnerability
Secunia: 37699 - Mozilla Firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities, Highly Critical
Vupen: ADV-2009-3547
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Entry
Created: 03/18/2015 15:15Updated: 08/30/2021 07:35
Changes: 03/18/2015 15:15 (64), 02/18/2017 09:36 (18), 08/30/2021 07:35 (3)
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