Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.6 Status Bar authentication spoofing ⚔ [Disputed]

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A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.6 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Status Bar. Such manipulation leads to authentication spoofing. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2007-4357. There is not any exploit available. There are still doubts about whether this vulnerability truly exists.

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A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.6 (Web Browser) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code of the component Status Bar. 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 integrity. CVE summarizes:

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to spoof the contents of the status bar via a link to a data: URI containing an encoded URL. NOTE: the severity of this issue has been disputed by a reliable third party, since the intended functionality of the status bar allows it to be modified.

The weakness was released 08/14/2007 as not defined posting (Bugtraq). The advisory is shared for download at securityfocus.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2007-4357 since 08/14/2007. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 09/06/2018).

The real existence of this vulnerability is still doubted at the moment.

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

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• Web Browser

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• Mozilla

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• Firefox

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• 2.0.0.6

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• open-source

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• Vendor: https://www.mozilla.org/
• Product: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/

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