Mozilla Firefox up to 1.7.3 information disclosure

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Mozilla Firefox up to 1.7.3. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. Such manipulation leads to information disclosure. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2004-2226. The attack may be performed from remote. In addition, an exploit is available. You should disable the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox up to 1.7.3 (Web Browser) and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

Mozilla Mail 1.7.1 and 1.7.3, and Thunderbird before 0.9, when HTML-Mails is enabled, allows remote attackers to determine valid e-mail addresses via an HTML e-mail that references a Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) document on the attacker s server.

The bug was discovered 11/02/2004. The weakness was presented 11/03/2004 by plonk (Website). The advisory is shared for download at secunia.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2004-2226 since 07/17/2005. 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. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1592.

After even before and not, there has been an exploit disclosed. 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 $5k-$25k.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at mozilla.org.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (17949), OSVDB (11394†) and Secunia (SA13086†). VulDB is the best source for vulnerability data and more expert information about this specific topic.

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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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Exploitinginfo

Class: Information disclosure
CWE: CWE-200 / CWE-284 / CWE-266
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Disable
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Patch: mozilla.org

Timelineinfo

11/02/2004 🔍
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11/03/2004 +1 days 🔍
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12/31/2004 +53 days 🔍
07/17/2005 +198 days 🔍
06/30/2019 +5096 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mozilla.org
Product: mozilla.org

Advisory: secunia.com⛔
Researcher: plonk
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2004-2226 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2004-2226
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-968
X-Force: 17949 - Mozilla and Thunderbird CSS obtain valid emails, Medium Risk
Secunia: 13086 - Mozilla / Thunderbird Valid Email Address Enumeration Weakness, Not Critical
OSVDB: 11394 - Mozilla Multiple Products CSS Tag Email Address Enumeration

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

Entryinfo

Created: 11/08/2004 10:30
Updated: 06/30/2019 09:12
Changes: 11/08/2004 10:30 (69), 06/30/2019 09:12 (2)
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Cache ID: 216:24B:103

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