Vulnerabilities > CVE-2006-2900 - Information Exposure vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
HIGH Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL Integrity impact
PARTIAL Availability impact
NONE Summary
Internet Explorer 6 allows user-assisted remote attackers to read arbitrary files by tricking a user into typing the characters of the target filename in a text box and using the OnKeyDown, OnKeyPress, and OnKeyUp Javascript keystroke events to change the focus and cause those characters to be inserted into a file upload input control, which can then upload the file when the user submits the form.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 10 | |
| Hardware | 1 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Subverting Environment Variable Values The attacker directly or indirectly modifies environment variables used by or controlling the target software. The attacker's goal is to cause the target software to deviate from its expected operation in a manner that benefits the attacker.
- Footprinting An attacker engages in probing and exploration activity to identify constituents and properties of the target. Footprinting is a general term to describe a variety of information gathering techniques, often used by attackers in preparation for some attack. It consists of using tools to learn as much as possible about the composition, configuration, and security mechanisms of the targeted application, system or network. Information that might be collected during a footprinting effort could include open ports, applications and their versions, network topology, and similar information. While footprinting is not intended to be damaging (although certain activities, such as network scans, can sometimes cause disruptions to vulnerable applications inadvertently) it may often pave the way for more damaging attacks.
- Exploiting Trust in Client (aka Make the Client Invisible) An attack of this type exploits a programs' vulnerabilities in client/server communication channel authentication and data integrity. It leverages the implicit trust a server places in the client, or more importantly, that which the server believes is the client. An attacker executes this type of attack by placing themselves in the communication channel between client and server such that communication directly to the server is possible where the server believes it is communicating only with a valid client. There are numerous variations of this type of attack.
- Browser Fingerprinting An attacker carefully crafts small snippets of Java Script to efficiently detect the type of browser the potential victim is using. Many web-based attacks need prior knowledge of the web browser including the version of browser to ensure successful exploitation of a vulnerability. Having this knowledge allows an attacker to target the victim with attacks that specifically exploit known or zero day weaknesses in the type and version of the browser used by the victim. Automating this process via Java Script as a part of the same delivery system used to exploit the browser is considered more efficient as the attacker can supply a browser fingerprinting method and integrate it with exploit code, all contained in Java Script and in response to the same web page request by the browser.
- Session Credential Falsification through Prediction This attack targets predictable session ID in order to gain privileges. The attacker can predict the session ID used during a transaction to perform spoofing and session hijacking.
Nessus
NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-535-1.NASL description Various flaws were discovered in the layout and JavaScript engines. By tricking a user into opening a malicious web page, an attacker could execute arbitrary code with the user last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 28141 published 2007-11-10 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2007-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/28141 title Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 / 7.10 : firefox vulnerabilities (USN-535-1) code #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502 # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Ubuntu Security Notice USN-535-1. The text # itself is copyright (C) Canonical, Inc. See # <http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/>. Ubuntu(R) is a registered # trademark of Canonical, Inc. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(28141); script_version("1.21"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/08/02 13:33:01"); script_cve_id("CVE-2006-2894", "CVE-2006-2900", "CVE-2007-1095", "CVE-2007-2292", "CVE-2007-3511", "CVE-2007-5334", "CVE-2007-5335", "CVE-2007-5337", "CVE-2007-5338", "CVE-2007-5339", "CVE-2007-5340"); script_bugtraq_id(18308, 22688, 23668, 24725, 26132); script_xref(name:"USN", value:"535-1"); script_name(english:"Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 / 7.10 : firefox vulnerabilities (USN-535-1)"); script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for updated packages."); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value: "The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "Various flaws were discovered in the layout and JavaScript engines. By tricking a user into opening a malicious web page, an attacker could execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges. (CVE-2007-5336, CVE-2007-5339, CVE-2007-5340) Michal Zalewski discovered that the onUnload event handlers were incorrectly able to access information outside the old page content. A malicious website could exploit this to modify the contents, or steal confidential data (such as passwords), of the next loaded web page. (CVE-2007-1095) Stefano Di Paola discovered that Firefox did not correctly request Digest Authentications. A malicious website could exploit this to inject arbitrary HTTP headers or perform session splitting attacks against proxies. (CVE-2007-2292) Flaws were discovered in the file upload form control. By tricking a user into opening a malicious web page, an attacker could force arbitrary files from the user's computer to be uploaded without their consent. (CVE-2006-2894, CVE-2007-3511) Eli Friedman discovered that XUL could be used to hide a window's titlebar. A malicious website could exploit this to enhance their attempts at creating phishing websites. (CVE-2007-5334) Georgi Guninski discovered that Firefox would allow file-system based web pages to access additional files. By tricking a user into opening a malicious web page from a gnome-vfs location, an attacker could steal arbitrary files from the user's computer. (CVE-2007-5337) It was discovered that the XPCNativeWrappers were not safe in certain situations. By tricking a user into opening a malicious web page, an attacker could run arbitrary JavaScript with the user's privileges. (CVE-2007-5338). 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." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://usn.ubuntu.com/535-1/" ); script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages."); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true"); script_cwe_id(16, 20, 200); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:firefox"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:firefox-dbg"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:firefox-dev"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:firefox-dom-inspector"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:firefox-gnome-support"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:firefox-libthai"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnspr-dev"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnspr4"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnss-dev"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnss3"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mozilla-firefox"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mozilla-firefox-dev"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mozilla-firefox-dom-inspector"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mozilla-firefox-gnome-support"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.10"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.04"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.10"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2007/10/22"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2007/11/10"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2007-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"Ubuntu Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/cpu", "Host/Ubuntu", "Host/Ubuntu/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("ubuntu.inc"); include("misc_func.inc"); if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled") ) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/Ubuntu/release"); if ( isnull(release) ) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu"); release = chomp(release); if (! ereg(pattern:"^(6\.06|6\.10|7\.04|7\.10)$", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu 6.06 / 6.10 / 7.04 / 7.10", "Ubuntu " + release); if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l") ) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Ubuntu", cpu); flag = 0; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.06", pkgname:"firefox", pkgver:"1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.14~prepatch071011b-0ubuntu1")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.06", pkgname:"firefox-dbg", pkgver:"1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.14~prepatch071011b-0ubuntu1")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.06", pkgname:"firefox-dev", pkgver:"1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.14~prepatch071011b-0ubuntu1")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.06", pkgname:"firefox-dom-inspector", pkgver:"1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.14~prepatch071011b-0ubuntu1")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.06", pkgname:"firefox-gnome-support", pkgver:"1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.14~prepatch071011b-0ubuntu1")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.06", pkgname:"libnspr-dev", pkgver:"1.firefox1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.14~prepatch071011b-0ubuntu1")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.06", pkgname:"libnspr4", pkgver:"1.firefox1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.14~prepatch071011b-0ubuntu1")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.06", pkgname:"libnss-dev", pkgver:"1.firefox1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.14~prepatch071011b-0ubuntu1")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.06", pkgname:"libnss3", pkgver:"1.firefox1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.14~prepatch071011b-0ubuntu1")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.06", pkgname:"mozilla-firefox", pkgver:"1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.14~prepatch071011b-0ubuntu1")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.06", pkgname:"mozilla-firefox-dev", pkgver:"1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.14~prepatch071011b-0ubuntu1")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.10", pkgname:"firefox", pkgver:"2.0.0.8+0dfsg-0ubuntu0.6.10")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.10", pkgname:"firefox-dbg", pkgver:"2.0.0.8+0dfsg-0ubuntu0.6.10")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.10", pkgname:"firefox-dev", pkgver:"2.0.0.8+0dfsg-0ubuntu0.6.10")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.10", pkgname:"firefox-dom-inspector", pkgver:"2.0.0.8+0dfsg-0ubuntu0.6.10")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.10", pkgname:"firefox-gnome-support", pkgver:"2.0.0.8+0dfsg-0ubuntu0.6.10")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.10", pkgname:"libnspr-dev", pkgver:"1.firefox2.0.0.8+0dfsg-0ubuntu0.6.10")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.10", pkgname:"libnspr4", pkgver:"1.firefox2.0.0.8+0dfsg-0ubuntu0.6.10")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.10", pkgname:"libnss-dev", pkgver:"1.firefox2.0.0.8+0dfsg-0ubuntu0.6.10")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.10", pkgname:"libnss3", pkgver:"1.firefox2.0.0.8+0dfsg-0ubuntu0.6.10")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.10", pkgname:"mozilla-firefox", pkgver:"2.0.0.8+0dfsg-0ubuntu0.6.10")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.10", pkgname:"mozilla-firefox-dev", pkgver:"2.0.0.8+0dfsg-0ubuntu0.6.10")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.10", pkgname:"mozilla-firefox-dom-inspector", pkgver:"2.0.0.8+0dfsg-0ubuntu0.6.10")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.10", pkgname:"mozilla-firefox-gnome-support", pkgver:"2.0.0.8+0dfsg-0ubuntu0.6.10")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.04", pkgname:"firefox", pkgver:"2.0.0.8+1nobinonly-0ubuntu1")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.04", pkgname:"firefox-dbg", pkgver:"2.0.0.8+1nobinonly-0ubuntu1")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.04", pkgname:"firefox-dev", pkgver:"2.0.0.8+1nobinonly-0ubuntu1")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.04", pkgname:"firefox-dom-inspector", pkgver:"2.0.0.8+1nobinonly-0ubuntu1")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.04", pkgname:"firefox-gnome-support", pkgver:"2.0.0.8+1nobinonly-0ubuntu1")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.04", pkgname:"firefox-libthai", pkgver:"2.0.0.8+1nobinonly-0ubuntu1")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.04", pkgname:"libnspr-dev", pkgver:"1.firefox2.0.0.8+1nobinonly-0ubuntu1")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.04", pkgname:"libnspr4", pkgver:"1.firefox2.0.0.8+1nobinonly-0ubuntu1")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.04", pkgname:"libnss-dev", pkgver:"1.firefox2.0.0.8+1nobinonly-0ubuntu1")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.04", pkgname:"libnss3", pkgver:"1.firefox2.0.0.8+1nobinonly-0ubuntu1")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.04", pkgname:"mozilla-firefox", pkgver:"2.0.0.8+1nobinonly-0ubuntu1")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.04", pkgname:"mozilla-firefox-dev", pkgver:"2.0.0.8+1nobinonly-0ubuntu1")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.04", pkgname:"mozilla-firefox-dom-inspector", pkgver:"2.0.0.8+1nobinonly-0ubuntu1")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.04", pkgname:"mozilla-firefox-gnome-support", pkgver:"2.0.0.8+1nobinonly-0ubuntu1")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.10", pkgname:"firefox", pkgver:"2.0.0.8+2nobinonly-0ubuntu1")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.10", pkgname:"firefox-dbg", pkgver:"2.0.0.8+2nobinonly-0ubuntu1")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.10", pkgname:"firefox-dev", pkgver:"2.0.0.8+2nobinonly-0ubuntu1")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.10", pkgname:"firefox-dom-inspector", pkgver:"2.0.0.8+2nobinonly-0ubuntu1")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.10", pkgname:"firefox-gnome-support", pkgver:"2.0.0.8+2nobinonly-0ubuntu1")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.10", pkgname:"firefox-libthai", pkgver:"2.0.0.8+2nobinonly-0ubuntu1")) flag++; if (flag) { security_report_v4( port : 0, severity : SECURITY_HOLE, extra : ubuntu_report_get() ); exit(0); } else { tested = ubuntu_pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "firefox / firefox-dbg / firefox-dev / firefox-dom-inspector / etc"); }NASL family Mandriva Local Security Checks NASL id MANDRAKE_MDKSA-2006-143.NASL description A number of security vulnerabilities have been discovered and corrected in the latest Mozilla Firefox program. Previous updates to Firefox were patch fixes to Firefox 1.0.6 that brought it in sync with 1.0.8 in terms of security fixes. In this update, Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.6 is being provided which corrects a number of vulnerabilities that were previously unpatched, as well as providing new and enhanced features. The following CVE names have been corrected with this update: CVE-2006-2613, CVE-2006-2894, CVE-2006-2775, CVE-2006-2776, CVE-2006-2777, CVE-2006-2778, CVE-2006-2779, CVE-2006-2780, CVE-2006-2782, CVE-2006-2783, CVE-2006-2784, CVE-2006-2785, CVE-2006-2786, CVE-2006-2787, CVE-2006-2788, CVE-2006-3677, CVE-2006-3803, CVE-2006-3804, CVE-2006-3806, CVE-2006-3807, CVE-2006-3113, CVE-2006-3801, CVE-2006-3802, CVE-2006-3805, CVE-2006-3808, CVE-2006-3809, CVE-2006-3810, CVE-2006-3811, CVE-2006-3812. Update : The previous language packages were not correctly tagged for the new Firefox which resulted in many of them not loading properly. These updated language packages correct the problem. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 23892 published 2006-12-16 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2006-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/23892 title Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : mozilla-firefox (MDKSA-2006:143-1)