Mozilla Firefox up to 1.0 Installation authentication spoofing

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Mozilla Firefox up to 1.0. Affected is an unknown function of the component Installation. This manipulation causes authentication spoofing. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2005-0590. There is no exploit available. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Mozilla Firefox up to 1.0 (Web Browser) and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Installation. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a authentication spoofing vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-290. This attack-focused weakness is caused by incorrectly implemented authentication schemes that are subject to spoofing attacks. As an impact it is known to affect integrity. The summary by CVE is:

The installation confirmation dialog in Firefox before 1.0.1, Thunderbird before 1.0.1, and Mozilla before 1.7.6 allows remote attackers to use InstallTrigger to spoof the hostname of the host performing the installation via a long "user:pass" sequence in the URL, which appears before the real hostname.

The bug was discovered 03/01/2005. The weakness was shared 05/02/2005 by Georgi Guninski (taviso) with Mozilla as Bug 268059 as not defined bug report (Bugzilla). The advisory is shared at bugzilla.mozilla.org. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2005-0590 since 02/28/2005. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 58 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 21930 (CentOS 3 : mozilla (CESA-2005:384)), 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 117973 (CentOS Security Update for Mozilla (CESA-2005:384)).

Upgrading to version 1.0.1 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published even before and not after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (19533), Tenable (21930), SecurityFocus (BID 12659†), OSVDB (14188†) and Secunia (SA14407†). The entries VDB-921, VDB-949, VDB-1115 and VDB-1185 are related to this item. Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.1

VulDB Base Score: 5.3
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Class: Authentication spoofing
CWE: CWE-290 / CWE-287
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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Nessus ID: 21930
Nessus Name: CentOS 3 : mozilla (CESA-2005:384)
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OpenVAS ID: 54875
OpenVAS Name: Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200503-10 (Firefox)
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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Firefox 1.0.1

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02/25/2005 🔍
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02/28/2005 +3 days 🔍
03/01/2005 +1 days 🔍
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04/27/2005 +57 days 🔍
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05/02/2005 +4 days 🔍
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07/05/2006 +429 days 🔍
03/10/2015 +3170 days 🔍
05/31/2019 +1543 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mozilla.org
Product: mozilla.org

Advisory: Bug 268059
Researcher: Georgi Guninski (taviso)
Organization: Mozilla
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2005-0590 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2005-0590
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-24529

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X-Force: 19533
SecurityFocus: 12659 - Mozilla Suite Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 14407 - Mozilla / Firefox / Thunderbird Multiple Vulnerabilities, Moderately Critical
OSVDB: 14188 - Mozilla "user:pass@host" spoofing
Vulnerability Center: 7706 - Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird and Mozilla Suite Allow Spoofing via \x27user:pass@host\x27, Medium

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/10/2015 23:05
Updated: 05/31/2019 19:05
Changes: 03/10/2015 23:05 (86), 05/31/2019 19:05 (4)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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