Mozilla Firefox up to 1.4 document.loadBindingDocument access control

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability labeled as critical has been found in Mozilla Firefox up to 1.4. This issue affects the function document.loadBindingDocument. Such manipulation leads to access control. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2008-4060. No exploit is available. The affected component should be upgraded.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox up to 1.4 (Web Browser). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is the function document.loadBindingDocument. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-264. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.17 and 3.x before 3.0.2, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.17, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.12 allow remote attackers to create documents that lack script-handling objects, and execute arbitrary code with chrome privileges, via vectors related to (1) the document.loadBindingDocument function and (2) XSLT.

The weakness was published 09/24/2008 by Georgi Guninski (moz_bug_r_a4) with Martijn Wargers as Bug 451037 as confirmed bug report (Bugzilla). The advisory is shared for download at bugzilla.mozilla.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2008-4060 since 09/12/2008. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 43709 (CentOS 4 / 5 : firefox (CESA-2008:0879)), 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 165702 (SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update Mozilla (SUSE-SA:2008:050)).

Upgrading to version 1.5 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability. Furthermore it is possible to detect and prevent this kind of attack with TippingPoint and the filter 9130.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (45353), Tenable (43709), SecurityFocus (BID 31346†), OSVDB (48748†) and Secunia (SA31984†). Similar entries are available at VDB-44216, VDB-44189, VDB-44188 and VDB-44187. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.6

VulDB Base Score: 7.3
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Class: Access control
CWE: CWE-264
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Proof-of-Concept

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Nessus ID: 43709
Nessus Name: CentOS 4 / 5 : firefox (CESA-2008:0879)
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OpenVAS ID: 61770
OpenVAS Name: Debian Security Advisory DSA 1649-1 (iceweasel)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Firefox 1.5
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mozilla.org
Product: mozilla.org

Advisory: Bug 451037
Researcher: Georgi Guninski (moz_bug_r_a4)
Organization: Martijn Wargers
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2008-4060 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2008-4060
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-44180

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X-Force: 45353
SecurityFocus: 31346 - Mozilla Firefox/SeaMonkey/Thunderbird Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 31984
OSVDB: 48748 - Mozilla Multiple Products XSLT Arbitrary Script Execution
SecurityTracker: 1020915
Vulnerability Center: 19556 - Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird and SeaMonkey Vulnerability Related to document.loadBindingDocument, Medium
Vupen: ADV-2008-2661

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/17/2015 16:11
Updated: 08/17/2019 12:29
Changes: 03/17/2015 16:11 (80), 08/17/2019 12:29 (11)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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