Vulnerabilities > CVE-2005-0231 - Unspecified vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox 1.0
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
HIGH Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
PARTIAL Availability impact
NONE Summary
Firefox 1.0 does not invoke the Javascript Security Manager when a user drags a javascript: or data: URL to a tab, which allows remote attackers to bypass the security model, aka "firetabbing."
Vulnerable Configurations
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Nessus
NASL family Gentoo Local Security Checks NASL id GENTOO_GLSA-200503-10.NASL description The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200503-10 (Mozilla Firefox: Various vulnerabilities) The following vulnerabilities were found and fixed in Mozilla Firefox: Michael Krax reported that plugins can be used to load privileged content and trick the user to interact with it (CAN-2005-0232, CAN-2005-0527) Michael Krax also reported potential spoofing or cross-site-scripting issues through overlapping windows, image drag-and-drop, and by dropping javascript: links on tabs (CAN-2005-0230, CAN-2005-0231, CAN-2005-0591) Daniel de Wildt and Gael Delalleau discovered a memory overwrite in a string library (CAN-2005-0255) Wind Li discovered a possible heap overflow in UTF8 to Unicode conversion (CAN-2005-0592) Eric Johanson reported that Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) features allow homograph attacks (CAN-2005-0233) Mook, Doug Turner, Kohei Yoshino and M. Deaudelin reported various ways of spoofing the SSL last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 17276 published 2005-03-06 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2005-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/17276 title GLSA-200503-10 : Mozilla Firefox: Various vulnerabilities NASL family CentOS Local Security Checks NASL id CENTOS_RHSA-2005-384.NASL description Updated Mozilla packages that fix various security bugs are now available. This update has been rated as having Important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Mozilla is an open source Web browser, advanced email and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editor. Several bugs were found with the way Mozilla displays the secure site icon. It is possible that a malicious website could display the secure site icon along with incorrect certificate information. (CVE-2005-0143 CVE-2005-0593) A bug was found in the way Mozilla handles synthetic middle click events. It is possible for a malicious web page to steal the contents of a victims clipboard. (CVE-2005-0146) Several bugs were found with the way Mozilla handles temporary files. A local user could view sensitive temporary information or delete arbitrary files. (CVE-2005-0142 CVE-2005-0578) A bug was found in the way Mozilla handles pop-up windows. It is possible for a malicious website to control the content in an unrelated site last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 21930 published 2006-07-05 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2006-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/21930 title CentOS 3 : mozilla (CESA-2005:384) NASL family Gentoo Local Security Checks NASL id GENTOO_GLSA-200503-30.NASL description The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200503-30 (Mozilla Suite: Multiple vulnerabilities) The following vulnerabilities were found and fixed in the Mozilla Suite: Mark Dowd from ISS X-Force reported an exploitable heap overrun in the GIF processing of obsolete Netscape extension 2 (CAN-2005-0399) Michael Krax reported that plugins can be used to load privileged content and trick the user to interact with it (CAN-2005-0232, CAN-2005-0527) Michael Krax also reported potential spoofing or cross-site-scripting issues through overlapping windows, image or scrollbar drag-and-drop, and by dropping javascript: links on tabs (CAN-2005-0230, CAN-2005-0231, CAN-2005-0401, CAN-2005-0591) Daniel de Wildt and Gael Delalleau discovered a memory overwrite in a string library (CAN-2005-0255) Wind Li discovered a possible heap overflow in UTF8 to Unicode conversion (CAN-2005-0592) Eric Johanson reported that Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) features allow homograph attacks (CAN-2005-0233) Mook, Doug Turner, Kohei Yoshino and M. Deaudelin reported various ways of spoofing the SSL last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 17619 published 2005-03-25 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2005-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/17619 title GLSA-200503-30 : Mozilla Suite: Multiple vulnerabilities NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-149-3.NASL description USN-149-1 fixed some vulnerabilities in the Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog) version of Firefox. The version shipped with Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog) is also vulnerable to these flaws, so it needs to be upgraded as well. Please see http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-149-1 for the original advisory. This update also fixes several older vulnerabilities; Some of them could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with full user privileges if the user visited a malicious website. (MFSA-2005-01 to MFSA-2005-44; please see the following website for details: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 20546 published 2006-01-15 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2005-2018 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2006-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/20546 title Ubuntu 4.10 : mozilla-firefox vulnerabilities (USN-149-3) NASL family Red Hat Local Security Checks NASL id REDHAT-RHSA-2005-384.NASL description Updated Mozilla packages that fix various security bugs are now available. This update has been rated as having Important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Mozilla is an open source Web browser, advanced email and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editor. Several bugs were found with the way Mozilla displays the secure site icon. It is possible that a malicious website could display the secure site icon along with incorrect certificate information. (CVE-2005-0143 CVE-2005-0593) A bug was found in the way Mozilla handles synthetic middle click events. It is possible for a malicious web page to steal the contents of a victims clipboard. (CVE-2005-0146) Several bugs were found with the way Mozilla handles temporary files. A local user could view sensitive temporary information or delete arbitrary files. (CVE-2005-0142 CVE-2005-0578) A bug was found in the way Mozilla handles pop-up windows. It is possible for a malicious website to control the content in an unrelated site last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 18162 published 2005-04-29 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2005-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/18162 title RHEL 2.1 / 3 : Mozilla (RHSA-2005:384) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_SA_2005_016.NASL description The remote host is missing the patch for the advisory SUSE-SA:2005:016 (Mozilla Firefox). This security update for Mozilla Firefox fixes following problems: - CAN-2005-0231: last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 20082 published 2005-10-24 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2005-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/20082 title SUSE-SA:2005:016: Mozilla Firefox NASL family Red Hat Local Security Checks NASL id REDHAT-RHSA-2005-176.NASL description Updated firefox packages that fix various bugs are now available. This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Mozilla Firefox is an open source Web browser. A bug was found in the Firefox string handling functions. If a malicious website is able to exhaust a system last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 17252 published 2005-03-02 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2005-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/17252 title RHEL 4 : firefox (RHSA-2005:176)
Oval
accepted 2007-05-09T16:10:38.802-04:00 class vulnerability contributors name Robert L. Hollis organization ThreatGuard, Inc. name Matthew Wojcik organization The MITRE Corporation name Jonathan Baker organization The MITRE Corporation name Jonathan Baker organization The MITRE Corporation name Jonathan Baker organization The MITRE Corporation name Jonathan Baker organization The MITRE Corporation name Jonathan Baker organization The MITRE Corporation name Jonathan Baker organization The MITRE Corporation
description Firefox 1.0 does not invoke the Javascript Security Manager when a user drags a javascript: or data: URL to a tab, which allows remote attackers to bypass the security model, aka "firetabbing." family windows id oval:org.mitre.oval:def:100032 status accepted submitted 2005-08-16T12:00:00.000-04:00 title Mozilla Cross-site Scripting via Drag and Drop to Tab version 6 accepted 2013-04-29T04:01:19.250-04:00 class vulnerability contributors name Aharon Chernin organization SCAP.com, LLC name Dragos Prisaca organization G2, Inc.
definition_extensions comment The operating system installed on the system is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 oval oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11782 comment CentOS Linux 3.x oval oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16651 comment The operating system installed on the system is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 oval oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11831 comment CentOS Linux 4.x oval oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16636 comment Oracle Linux 4.x oval oval:org.mitre.oval:def:15990
description Firefox 1.0 does not invoke the Javascript Security Manager when a user drags a javascript: or data: URL to a tab, which allows remote attackers to bypass the security model, aka "firetabbing." family unix id oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10079 status accepted submitted 2010-07-09T03:56:16-04:00 title Firefox 1.0 does not invoke the Javascript Security Manager when a user drags a javascript: or data: URL to a tab, which allows remote attackers to bypass the security model, aka "firetabbing." version 27
Redhat
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rpms | firefox-0:1.0.1-1.4.3 |
References
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110781134617144&w=2
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-10.xml
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-30.xml
- http://www.mikx.de/firetabbing/
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-26.html
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_16_mozilla_firefox.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-176.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-384.html
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=280056
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19264
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100032
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10079