Mozilla Firefox 4.0/4.0.1/5.0 Same Origin Policy information disclosure

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Mozilla Firefox 4.0/4.0.1/5.0 (Web Browser). This issue affects an unknown part 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. The summary by CVE is:

Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 5, Thunderbird before 6, SeaMonkey 2.x before 2.3, and possibly other products, when the Direct2D (aka D2D) API is used on Windows, allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy, and obtain sensitive image data from a different domain, by inserting this data into a canvas.

The weakness was presented 08/18/2011 by Rafael Gieschke (TippingPoint) with TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative as Bug 655836 as not defined bug report (Bugzilla). The advisory is shared at bugzilla.mozilla.org. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2011-2986. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 11/18/2021). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1592 for this issue.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 55878 (FreeBSD : mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities (834591a9-c82f-11e0-897d-6c626dd55a41)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family FreeBSD Local Security Checks. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 165573 (SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update Mozilla Firefox (SUSE-SA:2011:037)).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (55878). See 59399, 58320, 58319 and 58318 for similar entries.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.3
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Class: Information disclosure
CWE: CWE-200 / CWE-284 / CWE-266
ATT&CK: T1592

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Remote: Yes

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Nessus ID: 55878
Nessus Name: FreeBSD : mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities (834591a9-c82f-11e0-897d-6c626dd55a41)
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OpenVAS ID: 70261
OpenVAS Name: FreeBSD Ports: firefox
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mozilla.org
Product: mozilla.org

Advisory: Bug 655836
Researcher: Rafael Gieschke (TippingPoint)
Organization: TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2011-2986 (🔍)
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Vulnerability Center: 32745 - Mozilla Firefox <6, Thunderbird <6 and SeaMonkey <2.3 Canvas and Windows D2D Information Disclosure, Medium
SecurityFocus: 49166 - RETIRED: Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird/SeaMonkey MFSA 2011-29 through -30 Multiple Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 49055

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Created: 03/23/2015 16:50
Updated: 11/18/2021 05:13
Changes: 03/23/2015 16:50 (62), 03/29/2017 18:26 (11), 11/18/2021 05:03 (5), 11/18/2021 05:13 (1)
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