Mozilla Firefox up to 3.1 Access Restriction access control

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Mozilla Firefox up to 3.1. This impacts an unknown function of the component Access Restriction. Such manipulation leads to access control. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2009-1839. Additionally, an exploit exists. You should upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox up to 3.1 (Web Browser) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Access Restriction. 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. CVE summarizes:

Mozilla Firefox 3 before 3.0.11 associates an incorrect principal with a file: URL loaded through the location bar, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions and read files via a crafted HTML document, aka a "file-URL-to-file-URL scripting" attack.

The bug was discovered 06/11/2009. The weakness was released 06/12/2009 by Gregory Fleischer (Alex) with Microsoft (Website). The advisory is shared for download at vupen.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2009-1839 since 05/29/2009. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. 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 $25k-$100k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 43755 (CentOS 5 : firefox (CESA-2009:1095)), 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 116484 (Red Hat Update for Xulrunner Firefox (RHSA-2009:1095-1)).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 7 days after the disclosure of the vulnerability. Furthermore it is possible to detect and prevent this kind of attack with TippingPoint and the filter 6825.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (51078), Exploit-DB (10544), Tenable (43755), SecurityFocus (BID 35326†) and OSVDB (55163†). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at VDB-48599, VDB-48598, VDB-48597 and VDB-48595. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.5
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.7

VulDB Base Score: 7.5
VulDB Temp Score: 6.7
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Class: Access control
CWE: CWE-264
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Physical: No
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Remote: Yes

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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Nessus ID: 43755
Nessus Name: CentOS 5 : firefox (CESA-2009:1095)
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OpenVAS ID: 64254
OpenVAS Name: Debian Security Advisory DSA 1820-1 (xulrunner)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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06/12/2009 +1 days 🔍
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06/19/2009 +5 days 🔍
01/06/2010 +201 days 🔍
03/17/2015 +1896 days 🔍
01/01/2025 +3578 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mozilla.org
Product: mozilla.org

Advisory: vupen.com⛔
Researcher: Gregory Fleischer (Alex)
Organization: Microsoft
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2009-1839 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2009-1839
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-48596

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X-Force: 51078
SecurityFocus: 35326 - RETIRED: Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird/SeaMonkey MFSA 2009-24 through 32 Multiple Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 35331
OSVDB: 55163 - Mozilla Firefox Location Bar file: URL Principal Assocation Access Restriction Bypass
Vulnerability Center: 22530 - Mozilla Firefox 3 - 3.0.10 File: Resources Loaded Remote Arbitrary Files Reading Vulnerability, Medium
Vupen: ADV-2009-1572

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

Created: 03/17/2015 23:38
Updated: 01/01/2025 14:07
Changes: 03/17/2015 23:38 (82), 09/06/2019 08:20 (7), 01/01/2025 14:07 (22)
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Cache ID: 216:578:103

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