Mozilla Firefox up to 2.0 cross site scripting

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox. It has been declared as problematic. This affects an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2009-1308. The attack may be performed from remote. In addition, an exploit is available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox (Web Browser) and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. Impacted is integrity. CVE summarizes:

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.9, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving XBL JavaScript bindings and remote stylesheets, as exploited in the wild by a March 2009 eBay listing.

The bug was discovered 04/21/2009. The weakness was presented 04/22/2009 by Gregory Fleischer (moz_bug_r_a4) with Martijn Wargers (Website). The advisory is available at redhat.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2009-1308 since 04/16/2009. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1059.007 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The exploit is available at securityfocus.com. It is declared as attacked. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 43743 (CentOS 4 / 5 : firefox (CESA-2009:0436)), 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 119091 (Red Hat Update for Xulrunner Firefox (RHSA-2009:0436)).

Upgrading to version 2.0 .4 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 1 days after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (50011), Zero-Day.cz (216), Tenable (43743), SecurityFocus (BID 34656†) and OSVDB (53955†). See VDB-46674, VDB-48897, VDB-48896 and VDB-47862 for similar entries. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 4.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 4.1

VulDB Base Score: 4.3
VulDB Temp Score: 4.1
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Class: Cross site scripting
CWE: CWE-79 / CWE-94 / CWE-74
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Physical: No
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Remote: Yes

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Access: Public
Status: Attacked
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Nessus ID: 43743
Nessus Name: CentOS 4 / 5 : firefox (CESA-2009:0436)
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OpenVAS ID: 63962
OpenVAS Name: Debian Security Advisory DSA 1797-1 (xulrunner)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Firefox 2.0 .4

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mozilla.org
Product: mozilla.org

Advisory: redhat.com
Researcher: Gregory Fleischer (moz_bug_r_a4)
Organization: Martijn Wargers
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2009-1308 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2009-1308
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-47858

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X-Force: 50011
SecurityFocus: 34656 - Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird/SeaMonkey MFSA 2009 -14 through -22 Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 34758
OSVDB: 53955 - CVE-2009-1308 - Mozilla - Multiple Products - Cross-Site Scripting Issue
SecurityTracker: 1022097
Vulnerability Center: 21685 - Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird/SeaMonkey XBL Bindings Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability, Medium
Vupen: ADV-2009-1125

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Entryinfo

Created: 03/17/2015 23:38
Updated: 07/20/2024 04:42
Changes: 03/17/2015 23:38 (90), 09/02/2019 09:42 (4), 07/20/2024 04:42 (24)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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