Vulnerabilities > CVE-2009-0356 - Link Following vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
Attack vector
UNKNOWN Attack complexity
UNKNOWN Privileges required
UNKNOWN Confidentiality impact
UNKNOWN Integrity impact
UNKNOWN Availability impact
UNKNOWN Summary
Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.6 and SeaMonkey do not block links to the (1) about:plugins and (2) about:config URIs from .desktop files, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and execute arbitrary code with chrome privileges via vectors involving the URL field in a Desktop Entry section of a .desktop file, related to representation of about: URIs as jar:file:// URIs. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2008-4582.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Symlink Attack An attacker positions a symbolic link in such a manner that the targeted user or application accesses the link's endpoint, assuming that it is accessing a file with the link's name. The endpoint file may be either output or input. If the file is output, the result is that the endpoint is modified, instead of a file at the intended location. Modifications to the endpoint file may include appending, overwriting, corrupting, changing permissions, or other modifications. In some variants of this attack the attacker may be able to control the change to a file while in other cases they cannot. The former is especially damaging since the attacker may be able to grant themselves increased privileges or insert false information, but the latter can also be damaging as it can expose sensitive information or corrupt or destroy vital system or application files. Alternatively, the endpoint file may serve as input to the targeted application. This can be used to feed malformed input into the target or to cause the target to process different information, possibly allowing the attacker to control the actions of the target or to cause the target to expose information to the attacker. Moreover, the actions taken on the endpoint file are undertaken with the permissions of the targeted user or application, which may exceed the permissions that the attacker would normally have.
- Accessing, Modifying or Executing Executable Files An attack of this type exploits a system's configuration that allows an attacker to either directly access an executable file, for example through shell access; or in a possible worst case allows an attacker to upload a file and then execute it. Web servers, ftp servers, and message oriented middleware systems which have many integration points are particularly vulnerable, because both the programmers and the administrators must be in synch regarding the interfaces and the correct privileges for each interface.
- Leverage Executable Code in Non-Executable Files An attack of this type exploits a system's trust in configuration and resource files, when the executable loads the resource (such as an image file or configuration file) the attacker has modified the file to either execute malicious code directly or manipulate the target process (e.g. application server) to execute based on the malicious configuration parameters. Since systems are increasingly interrelated mashing up resources from local and remote sources the possibility of this attack occurring is high. The attack can be directed at a client system, such as causing buffer overrun through loading seemingly benign image files, as in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS04-028 where specially crafted JPEG files could cause a buffer overrun once loaded into the browser. Another example targets clients reading pdf files. In this case the attacker simply appends javascript to the end of a legitimate url for a pdf (http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/danger-danger-danger/) http://path/to/pdf/file.pdf#whatever_name_you_want=javascript:your_code_here The client assumes that they are reading a pdf, but the attacker has modified the resource and loaded executable javascript into the client's browser process. The attack can also target server processes. The attacker edits the resource or configuration file, for example a web.xml file used to configure security permissions for a J2EE app server, adding role name "public" grants all users with the public role the ability to use the administration functionality. The server trusts its configuration file to be correct, but when they are manipulated, the attacker gains full control.
- Manipulating Input to File System Calls An attacker manipulates inputs to the target software which the target software passes to file system calls in the OS. The goal is to gain access to, and perhaps modify, areas of the file system that the target software did not intend to be accessible.
Nessus
NASL family FreeBSD Local Security Checks NASL id FREEBSD_PKG_8B491182F84211DD94D90030843D3802.NASL description Mozilla Foundation reports : MFSA 2009-06: Directives to not cache pages ignored MFSA 2009-05: XMLHttpRequest allows reading HTTPOnly cookies MFSA 2009-04: Chrome privilege escalation via local .desktop files MFSA 2009-03: Local file stealing with SessionStore MFSA 2009-02: XSS using a chrome XBL method and window.eval MFSA 2009-01: Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.9.0.6) last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 35640 published 2009-02-12 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/35640 title FreeBSD : firefox -- multiple vulnerabilities (8b491182-f842-11dd-94d9-0030843d3802) NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2009-1399.NASL description Update to the new upstream Firefox 3.0.6 / XULRunner 1.9.0.6 fixing multiple security issues: http://www.mozilla.org/security/known- vulnerabilities/firefox30.html#firefox3.0.6 This update also contains new builds of all applications depending on Gecko libraries, built against the new version. Note: after the updated packages are installed, Firefox must be restarted for the update to take effect. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora 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 35604 published 2009-02-06 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/35604 title Fedora 9 : Miro-1.2.7-4.fc9 / blam-1.8.5-5.fc9.1 / cairo-dock-1.6.3.1-1.fc9.3 / chmsee-1.0.1-8.fc9 / etc (2009-1399) NASL family Mandriva Local Security Checks NASL id MANDRIVA_MDVSA-2009-044.NASL description Security vulnerabilities have been discovered and corrected in the latest Mozilla Firefox 3.x, version 3.0.5 (CVE-2009-0352, CVE-2009-0353, CVE-2009-0354, CVE-2009-0355, CVE-2009-0356, CVE-2009-0357, CVE-2009-0358). This update provides the latest Mozilla Firefox 3.x to correct these issues. As Mozilla Firefox 2.x has been phased out, version 3.x is also being provided for Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 37673 published 2009-04-23 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/37673 title Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : firefox (MDVSA-2009:044) NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2009-1398.NASL description Update to the new upstream Firefox 3.0.6 / XULRunner 1.9.0.6 fixing multiple security issues: http://www.mozilla.org/security/known- vulnerabilities/firefox30.html#firefox3.0.6 This update also contains new builds of all applications depending on Gecko libraries, built against the new version, including the latest google gadgets upstream release. See http://code.google.com/p/google-gadgets-for- linux/source/browse/trunk/ChangeLog?spec=svn1087&r=1087 for details. Note: after the updated packages are installed, Firefox must be restarted for the update to take effect. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora 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 37378 published 2009-04-23 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/37378 title Fedora 10 : Miro-1.2.8-2.fc10 / blam-1.8.5-6.fc10 / devhelp-0.22-3.fc10 / epiphany-2.24.3-2.fc10 / etc (2009-1398) NASL family Scientific Linux Local Security Checks NASL id SL_20090204_FIREFOX_ON_SL4_X.NASL description Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Firefox to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the user running Firefox. (CVE-2009-0352, CVE-2009-0353, CVE-2009-0356) Several flaws were found in the way malformed content was processed. A website containing specially crafted content could, potentially, trick a Firefox user into surrendering sensitive information. (CVE-2009-0354, CVE-2009-0355) A flaw was found in the way Firefox treated HTTPOnly cookies. An attacker able to execute arbitrary JavaScript on a target site using HTTPOnly cookies may be able to use this flaw to steal the cookie. (CVE-2009-0357) A flaw was found in the way Firefox treated certain HTTP page caching directives. A local attacker could steal the contents of sensitive pages which the page author did not intend to be cached. (CVE-2009-0358) After installing the update, Firefox must be restarted for the changes to take effect. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 60527 published 2012-08-01 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/60527 title Scientific Linux Security Update : firefox on SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64 NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_11_0_MOZILLAFIREFOX-090206.NASL description The Mozilla Firefox browser is updated to version 3.0.6 fixing various security and stability issues. MFSA 2009-01 / CVE-2009-0352 / CVE-2009-0353: Mozilla developers identified and fixed several stability bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. Some of these crashes showed evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances and we presume that with enough effort at least some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code. MFSA 2009-02 / CVE-2009-0354: Mozilla security researcher moz_bug_r_a4 reported that a chrome XBL method can be used in conjuction with window.eval to execute arbitrary JavaScript within the context of another website, violating the same origin policy. Firefox 2 releases are not affected. MFSA 2009-03 / CVE-2009-0355: Mozilla security researcher moz_bug_r_a4 reported that a form input control last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 39886 published 2009-07-21 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/39886 title openSUSE Security Update : MozillaFirefox (MozillaFirefox-509) NASL family CentOS Local Security Checks NASL id CENTOS_RHSA-2009-0256.NASL description An updated firefox package that fixes various security issues is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5. 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. Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Firefox to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the user running Firefox. (CVE-2009-0352, CVE-2009-0353, CVE-2009-0356) Several flaws were found in the way malformed content was processed. A website containing specially crafted content could, potentially, trick a Firefox user into surrendering sensitive information. (CVE-2009-0354, CVE-2009-0355) A flaw was found in the way Firefox treated HTTPOnly cookies. An attacker able to execute arbitrary JavaScript on a target site using HTTPOnly cookies may be able to use this flaw to steal the cookie. (CVE-2009-0357) A flaw was found in the way Firefox treated certain HTTP page caching directives. A local attacker could steal the contents of sensitive pages which the page author did not intend to be cached. (CVE-2009-0358) For technical details regarding these flaws, please see the Mozilla security advisories for Firefox 3.0.6. You can find a link to the Mozilla advisories in the References section. All Firefox users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain Firefox version 3.0.6, which corrects these issues. After installing the update, Firefox must be restarted for the changes to take effect. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 35590 published 2009-02-05 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/35590 title CentOS 4 / 5 : firefox (CESA-2009:0256) NASL family Red Hat Local Security Checks NASL id REDHAT-RHSA-2009-0256.NASL description An updated firefox package that fixes various security issues is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5. 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. Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Firefox to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the user running Firefox. (CVE-2009-0352, CVE-2009-0353, CVE-2009-0356) Several flaws were found in the way malformed content was processed. A website containing specially crafted content could, potentially, trick a Firefox user into surrendering sensitive information. (CVE-2009-0354, CVE-2009-0355) A flaw was found in the way Firefox treated HTTPOnly cookies. An attacker able to execute arbitrary JavaScript on a target site using HTTPOnly cookies may be able to use this flaw to steal the cookie. (CVE-2009-0357) A flaw was found in the way Firefox treated certain HTTP page caching directives. A local attacker could steal the contents of sensitive pages which the page author did not intend to be cached. (CVE-2009-0358) For technical details regarding these flaws, please see the Mozilla security advisories for Firefox 3.0.6. You can find a link to the Mozilla advisories in the References section. All Firefox users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain Firefox version 3.0.6, which corrects these issues. After installing the update, Firefox must be restarted for the changes to take effect. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 35585 published 2009-02-04 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/35585 title RHEL 4 / 5 : firefox (RHSA-2009:0256) NASL family Gentoo Local Security Checks NASL id GENTOO_GLSA-201301-01.NASL description The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201301-01 (Mozilla Products: Multiple vulnerabilities) Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, NSS, GNU IceCat, and XULRunner. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact : A remote attacker could entice a user to view a specially crafted web page or email, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code or a Denial of Service condition. Furthermore, a remote attacker may be able to perform Man-in-the-Middle attacks, obtain sensitive information, bypass restrictions and protection mechanisms, force file downloads, conduct XML injection attacks, conduct XSS attacks, bypass the Same Origin Policy, spoof URL’s for phishing attacks, trigger a vertical scroll, spoof the location bar, spoof an SSL indicator, modify the browser’s font, conduct clickjacking attacks, or have other unspecified impact. A local attacker could gain escalated privileges, obtain sensitive information, or replace an arbitrary downloaded file. Workaround : There is no known workaround at this time. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 63402 published 2013-01-08 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/63402 title GLSA-201301-01 : Mozilla Products: Multiple vulnerabilities (BEAST) NASL family Oracle Linux Local Security Checks NASL id ORACLELINUX_ELSA-2009-0256.NASL description From Red Hat Security Advisory 2009:0256 : An updated firefox package that fixes various security issues is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5. 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. Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Firefox to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the user running Firefox. (CVE-2009-0352, CVE-2009-0353, CVE-2009-0356) Several flaws were found in the way malformed content was processed. A website containing specially crafted content could, potentially, trick a Firefox user into surrendering sensitive information. (CVE-2009-0354, CVE-2009-0355) A flaw was found in the way Firefox treated HTTPOnly cookies. An attacker able to execute arbitrary JavaScript on a target site using HTTPOnly cookies may be able to use this flaw to steal the cookie. (CVE-2009-0357) A flaw was found in the way Firefox treated certain HTTP page caching directives. A local attacker could steal the contents of sensitive pages which the page author did not intend to be cached. (CVE-2009-0358) For technical details regarding these flaws, please see the Mozilla security advisories for Firefox 3.0.6. You can find a link to the Mozilla advisories in the References section. All Firefox users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain Firefox version 3.0.6, which corrects these issues. After installing the update, Firefox must be restarted for the changes to take effect. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 67795 published 2013-07-12 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/67795 title Oracle Linux 4 / 5 : firefox (ELSA-2009-0256) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_11_1_MOZILLAFIREFOX-090206.NASL description The Mozilla Firefox browser is updated to version 3.0.6 fixing various security and stability issues. MFSA 2009-01 / CVE-2009-0352 / CVE-2009-0353: Mozilla developers identified and fixed several stability bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. Some of these crashes showed evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances and we presume that with enough effort at least some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code. MFSA 2009-02 / CVE-2009-0354: Mozilla security researcher moz_bug_r_a4 reported that a chrome XBL method can be used in conjuction with window.eval to execute arbitrary JavaScript within the context of another website, violating the same origin policy. Firefox 2 releases are not affected. MFSA 2009-03 / CVE-2009-0355: Mozilla security researcher moz_bug_r_a4 reported that a form input control last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 40169 published 2009-07-21 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/40169 title openSUSE Security Update : MozillaFirefox (MozillaFirefox-509) NASL family Windows NASL id MOZILLA_FIREFOX_306.NASL description The installed version of Firefox 3.0.x is earlier than 3.0.6. Such versions are potentially affected by the following security issues : - There are several stability bugs in the browser engine that could lead to crashes with evidence of memory corruption. (MFSA 2009-01) - A chrome XBL method can be used in conjunction with last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 35581 published 2009-02-04 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/35581 title Firefox 3.0.x < 3.0.6 Multiple Vulnerabilities
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description | Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.6 and SeaMonkey do not block links to the (1) about:plugins and (2) about:config URIs from .desktop files, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and execute arbitrary code with chrome privileges via vectors involving the URL field in a Desktop Entry section of a .desktop file, related to representation of about: URIs as jar:file:// URIs. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2008-4582. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
family | unix | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
id | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9922 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
submitted | 2010-07-09T03:56:16-04:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
title | Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.6 and SeaMonkey do not block links to the (1) about:plugins and (2) about:config URIs from .desktop files, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and execute arbitrary code with chrome privileges via vectors involving the URL field in a Desktop Entry section of a .desktop file, related to representation of about: URIs as jar:file:// URIs. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2008-4582. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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References
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-04.html
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=460425
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33598
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33809
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0256.html
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021666
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33799
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:044
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33841
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33831
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-040.htm
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33846
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-February/msg00240.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0313
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00001.html
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9922