Mozilla Firefox prior 1.0.9 authentication spoofing

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Mozilla Firefox (Web Browser). This affects some unknown processing. 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 confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.16 and 3.5.x before 3.5.6, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.1, allows remote attackers to associate spoofed content with an invalid URL by setting document.location to this URL, and then writing arbitrary web script or HTML to the associated blank document, a related issue to CVE-2009-2654.

The weakness was presented 12/17/2009 by Jordi Chancel (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at debian.org. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2009-3985 since 11/19/2009. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.

A public exploit has been developed by Jordi Chancel and been published 1 days after the advisory. The exploit is shared for download at securityfocus.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. We expect the 0-day to have been worth approximately $5k-$25k. 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 (54808), Tenable (43355) and Exploit-DB (10544). See 4073, 51185, 51184 and 51182 for similar entries.

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Class: Authentication spoofing
CWE: CWE-290 / CWE-287
ATT&CK: Unknown

Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
Author: Jordi Chancel
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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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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Firefox 1.0.9

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Vendor: mozilla.org
Product: mozilla.org

Advisory: debian.org
Researcher: Jordi Chancel
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2009-3985 (🔍)
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X-Force: 54808
SecurityTracker: 1023342 - Mozilla Firefox Lets Remote Users Spoof URL Status and Contents
Vulnerability Center: 24403 - Mozilla Firefox and SeaMonkey Document.Location Associated Blank Document Spoofing Vulnerability, Medium
SecurityFocus: 37370 - Mozilla Firefox and Sea Monkey Content Injection Spoofing Vulnerability
Secunia: 37699 - Mozilla Firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities, Highly Critical
Vupen: ADV-2009-3547

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Created: 03/18/2015 15:15
Updated: 08/30/2021 07:41
Changes: 03/18/2015 15:15 (64), 02/18/2017 09:36 (26), 08/30/2021 07:41 (3)
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