Mozilla Firefox up to 0.10.1 Tabs Browsing authentication spoofing

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox up to 0.10.1. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Tabs Browsing. The manipulation leads to authentication spoofing. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2004-1380. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. Moreover, an exploit is present. The affected component should be disabled.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox up to 0.10.1 (Web Browser). It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown function of the component Tabs Browsing. 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 confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Firefox before 1.0 and Mozilla before 1.7.5 allows inactive (background) tabs to launch dialog boxes, which can allow remote attackers to spoof the dialog boxes from web sites in other windows and facilitate phishing attacks, aka the "Dialog Box Spoofing Vulnerability."

The bug was discovered 10/04/2004. The weakness was disclosed 10/20/2004 by Jakob Balle (mikx) with Secunia Research (Website). The advisory is shared at secunia.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2004-1380 since 01/25/2005. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.

After immediately, there has been an exploit disclosed. The exploit is available at secunia.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 16 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 17626 (RHEL 4 : mozilla (RHSA-2005:335)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Red Hat Local Security Checks and running in the context l.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at mozilla.org. A possible mitigation has been published 6 months after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (18864), Exploit-DB (589), Tenable (17626), SecurityFocus (BID 12234†) and OSVDB (10983†). The entries VDB-923, VDB-921, VDB-926 and VDB-920 are pretty similar. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.0
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VulDB Base Score: 5.0
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Class: Authentication spoofing
CWE: CWE-290 / CWE-287
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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: 17626
Nessus Name: RHEL 4 : mozilla (RHSA-2005:335)
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Recommended: Disable
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Patch: mozilla.org

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mozilla.org
Product: mozilla.org

Advisory: secunia.com⛔
Researcher: Jakob Balle (mikx)
Organization: Secunia Research
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2004-1380 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2004-1380
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-917

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X-Force: 18864 - Multiple vendor Web browser modal dialog spoofing, Medium Risk
SecurityFocus: 12234 - Mozilla/Netscape/Firefox Browser Modal Dialog Spoofing Vulnerability
Secunia: 12712 - Mozilla / Mozilla Firefox / Camino Tabbed Browsing Vulnerabilities, Less Critical
OSVDB: 10983 - Multiple Browser Cross Tab Dialog Box Spoofing
SecurityTracker: 1011835
Vulnerability Center: 7479

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

Created: 10/21/2004 14:14
Updated: 09/27/2025 01:32
Changes: 10/21/2004 14:14 (96), 06/29/2019 16:55 (3), 06/27/2024 13:34 (17), 09/27/2025 01:32 (8)
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