Mozilla Firefox prior 1.0.9 Same Origin Policy information disclosure
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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 function of the component Same Origin Policy. 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. CVE summarizes:
Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.20, Thunderbird 2.x and 3.x before 3.1.12, SeaMonkey 1.x and 2.x, and possibly other products does not properly handle the RegExp.input property, which allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and read data from a different domain via a crafted web site, possibly related to a use-after-free.
The weakness was published 08/18/2011 by Rafael Gieschke (TippingPoint) with TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative as Bug 626297 as not defined bug report (Bugzilla). The advisory is available at bugzilla.mozilla.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2011-2983. 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. This vulnerability is assigned to T1592 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.
The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 55862 (CentOS 4 / 5 : firefox / xulrunner (CESA-2011:1164)), 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 119512 (Red Hat Update for Xulrunner Firefox (RHSA-2011:1164)).
Upgrading to version 1.0.9 eliminates this vulnerability.
The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (55862). Similar entries are available at 58320, 58319, 58318 and 58317.
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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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Status: Not defined
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Nessus ID: 55862
Nessus Name: CentOS 4 / 5 : firefox / xulrunner (CESA-2011:1164)
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OpenVAS ID: 70230
OpenVAS Name: Debian Security Advisory DSA 2295-1 (iceape)
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Upgrade: Firefox 1.0.9
Timeline
08/01/2011 🔍08/16/2011 🔍
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Sources
Vendor: mozilla.orgProduct: mozilla.org
Advisory: Bug 626297
Researcher: Rafael Gieschke (TippingPoint)
Organization: TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2011-2983 (🔍)
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Vulnerability Center: 32752 - Mozilla Firefox 3-3.2.19 and Thunderbird 3-3.1.11 RegExp.input Information Disclosure Vulnerability, Medium
SecurityFocus: 49166 - RETIRED: Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird/SeaMonkey MFSA 2011-29 through -30 Multiple Vulnerabilities
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Entry
Created: 03/23/2015 16:50Updated: 11/18/2021 03:58
Changes: 03/23/2015 16:50 (63), 03/29/2017 18:27 (11), 11/18/2021 03:51 (4), 11/18/2021 03:58 (1)
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