Vulnerabilities > CVE-2013-1695 - Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox

047910
CVSS 5.0 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
NONE
network
low complexity
mozilla
CWE-264
nessus

Summary

Mozilla Firefox before 22.0 does not properly implement certain DocShell inheritance behavior for the sandbox attribute of an IFRAME element, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via a FRAME element within an IFRAME element.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Mozilla
214

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • 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.
  • Blue Boxing
    This type of attack against older telephone switches and trunks has been around for decades. A tone is sent by an adversary to impersonate a supervisor signal which has the effect of rerouting or usurping command of the line. While the US infrastructure proper may not contain widespread vulnerabilities to this type of attack, many companies are connected globally through call centers and business process outsourcing. These international systems may be operated in countries which have not upgraded Telco infrastructure and so are vulnerable to Blue boxing. Blue boxing is a result of failure on the part of the system to enforce strong authorization for administrative functions. While the infrastructure is different than standard current applications like web applications, there are historical lessons to be learned to upgrade the access control for administrative functions.
  • Restful Privilege Elevation
    Rest uses standard HTTP (Get, Put, Delete) style permissions methods, but these are not necessarily correlated generally with back end programs. Strict interpretation of HTTP get methods means that these HTTP Get services should not be used to delete information on the server, but there is no access control mechanism to back up this logic. This means that unless the services are properly ACL'd and the application's service implementation are following these guidelines then an HTTP request can easily execute a delete or update on the server side. The attacker identifies a HTTP Get URL such as http://victimsite/updateOrder, which calls out to a program to update orders on a database or other resource. The URL is not idempotent so the request can be submitted multiple times by the attacker, additionally, the attacker may be able to exploit the URL published as a Get method that actually performs updates (instead of merely retrieving data). This may result in malicious or inadvertent altering of data on the server.
  • Target Programs with Elevated Privileges
    This attack targets programs running with elevated privileges. The attacker would try to leverage a bug in the running program and get arbitrary code to execute with elevated privileges. For instance an attacker would look for programs that write to the system directories or registry keys (such as HKLM, which stores a number of critical Windows environment variables). These programs are typically running with elevated privileges and have usually not been designed with security in mind. Such programs are excellent exploit targets because they yield lots of power when they break. The malicious user try to execute its code at the same level as a privileged system call.

Nessus

  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idOPENSUSE-2013-556.NASL
    descriptionMozillaFirefox was updated to Firefox 22.0 (bnc#825935) Following security issues were fixed : - MFSA 2013-49/CVE-2013-1682/CVE-2013-1683 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards - MFSA 2013-50/CVE-2013-1684/CVE-2013-1685/CVE-2013-1686 Memory corruption found using Address Sanitizer - MFSA 2013-51/CVE-2013-1687 (bmo#863933, bmo#866823) Privileged content access and execution via XBL - MFSA 2013-52/CVE-2013-1688 (bmo#873966) Arbitrary code execution within Profiler - MFSA 2013-53/CVE-2013-1690 (bmo#857883) Execution of unmapped memory through onreadystatechange event - MFSA 2013-54/CVE-2013-1692 (bmo#866915) Data in the body of XHR HEAD requests leads to CSRF attacks - MFSA 2013-55/CVE-2013-1693 (bmo#711043) SVG filters can lead to information disclosure - MFSA 2013-56/CVE-2013-1694 (bmo#848535) PreserveWrapper has inconsistent behavior - MFSA 2013-57/CVE-2013-1695 (bmo#849791) Sandbox restrictions not applied to nested frame elements - MFSA 2013-58/CVE-2013-1696 (bmo#761667) X-Frame-Options ignored when using server push with multi-part responses - MFSA 2013-59/CVE-2013-1697 (bmo#858101) XrayWrappers can be bypassed to run user defined methods in a privileged context - MFSA 2013-60/CVE-2013-1698 (bmo#876044) getUserMedia permission dialog incorrectly displays location - MFSA 2013-61/CVE-2013-1699 (bmo#840882) Homograph domain spoofing in .com, .net and .name
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    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/75073
    titleopenSUSE Security Update : MozillaFirefox (openSUSE-SU-2013:1142-1)
  • NASL familyWindows
    NASL idMOZILLA_THUNDERBIRD_1707.NASL
    descriptionThe installed version of Thunderbird is a version prior to 17.0.7 and is, therefore, potentially affected by the following vulnerabilities : - Various, unspecified memory safety issues exist. (CVE-2013-1682, CVE-2013-1683) - Heap-use-after-free errors exist related to
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    published2013-06-26
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2013-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/66994
    titleMozilla Thunderbird < 17.0.7 Multiple Vulnerabilities
  • NASL familyMacOS X Local Security Checks
    NASL idMACOSX_FIREFOX_22.NASL
    descriptionThe installed version of Firefox is earlier than 22.0 and is, therefore, potentially affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - Various, unspecified memory safety issues exist. (CVE-2013-1682, CVE-2013-1683) - Heap-use-after-free errors exist related to
    last seen2020-06-01
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    plugin id66989
    published2013-06-26
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2013-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/66989
    titleFirefox < 22.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities (Mac OS X)
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idOPENSUSE-2013-574.NASL
    descriptionseamonkey was updated to 2.19 (bnc#825935) to fix bugs and security issues. Security issues fixed : - MFSA 2013-49/CVE-2013-1682/CVE-2013-1683 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards - MFSA 2013-50/CVE-2013-1684/CVE-2013-1685/CVE-2013-1686 Memory corruption found using Address Sanitizer - MFSA 2013-51/CVE-2013-1687 (bmo#863933, bmo#866823) Privileged content access and execution via XBL - MFSA 2013-52/CVE-2013-1688 (bmo#873966) Arbitrary code execution within Profiler - MFSA 2013-53/CVE-2013-1690 (bmo#857883) Execution of unmapped memory through onreadystatechange event - MFSA 2013-54/CVE-2013-1692 (bmo#866915) Data in the body of XHR HEAD requests leads to CSRF attacks - MFSA 2013-55/CVE-2013-1693 (bmo#711043) SVG filters can lead to information disclosure - MFSA 2013-56/CVE-2013-1694 (bmo#848535) PreserveWrapper has inconsistent behavior - MFSA 2013-57/CVE-2013-1695 (bmo#849791) Sandbox restrictions not applied to nested frame elements - MFSA 2013-58/CVE-2013-1696 (bmo#761667) X-Frame-Options ignored when using server push with multi-part responses - MFSA 2013-59/CVE-2013-1697 (bmo#858101) XrayWrappers can be bypassed to run user defined methods in a privileged context - MFSA 2013-60/CVE-2013-1698 (bmo#876044) getUserMedia permission dialog incorrectly displays location - MFSA 2013-61/CVE-2013-1699 (bmo#840882) Homograph domain spoofing in .com, .net and .name
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    titleopenSUSE Security Update : seamonkey (openSUSE-SU-2013:1180-1)
  • NASL familyMacOS X Local Security Checks
    NASL idMACOSX_THUNDERBIRD_17_0_7.NASL
    descriptionThe installed version of Thunderbird is earlier than 17.0.7 and is, therefore, potentially affected by the following vulnerabilities : - Various, unspecified memory safety issues exist. (CVE-2013-1682, CVE-2013-1683) - Heap-use-after-free errors exist related to
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    plugin id66990
    published2013-06-26
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2013-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/66990
    titleThunderbird < 17.0.7 Multiple Vulnerabilities (Mac OS X)
  • NASL familyUbuntu Local Security Checks
    NASL idUBUNTU_USN-1890-1.NASL
    descriptionMultiple memory safety issues were discovered in Firefox. If the user were tricked into opening a specially crafted page, an attacker could possibly exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash, or potentially execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2013-1682, CVE-2013-1683) Abhishek Arya discovered multiple use-after-free bugs. If the user were tricked into opening a specially crafted page, an attacker could possibly exploit these to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2013-1684, CVE-2013-1685, CVE-2013-1686) Mariusz Mlynski discovered that user defined code within the XBL scope of an element could be made to bypass System Only Wrappers (SOW). An attacker could potentially exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2013-1687) Mariusz Mlynski discovered that the profiler user interface incorrectly handled data from the profiler. If the user examined profiler output on a specially crafted page, an attacker could potentially exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2013-1688) A crash was discovered when reloading a page that contained content using the onreadystatechange event. An attacker could potentially exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox (CVE-2013-1690) Johnathan Kuskos discovered that Firefox sent data in the body of XMLHttpRequest HEAD requests. An attacker could exploit this to conduct Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks. (CVE-2013-1692) Paul Stone discovered a timing flaw in the processing of SVG images with filters. An attacker could exploit this to view sensitive information. (CVE-2013-1693) Boris Zbarsky discovered a flaw in PreserveWrapper. An attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2013-1694) Bob Owen discovered that a sandboxed iframe could use a frame element to bypass its own restrictions. (CVE-2013-1695) Frederic Buclin discovered that the X-Frame-Options header is ignored in multi-part responses. An attacker could potentially exploit this to conduct clickjacking attacks. (CVE-2013-1696) It was discovered that XrayWrappers could be bypassed to call content-defined methods in certain circumstances. An attacker could exploit this to cause undefined behaviour. (CVE-2013-1697) Matt Wobensmith discovered that the getUserMedia permission dialog displayed the wrong domain in certain circumstances. An attacker could potentially exploit this to trick the user in to giving a malicious site access to their microphone or camera. (CVE-2013-1698) It was discovered that the measures for preventing homograph attacks using Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) were not sufficient for certain Top Level Domains (TLD). An attacker could potentially exploit this to conduct URL spoofing and phishing attacks. (CVE-2013-1699). 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.
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    plugin id67000
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    reporterUbuntu Security Notice (C) 2013-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2013-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/67000
    titleUbuntu 12.04 LTS / 12.10 / 13.04 : firefox vulnerabilities (USN-1890-1)
  • NASL familyUbuntu Local Security Checks
    NASL idUBUNTU_USN-1890-2.NASL
    descriptionUSN-1890-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. This update introduced a regression which sometimes resulted in Firefox using the wrong network proxy settings. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Multiple memory safety issues were discovered in Firefox. If the user were tricked into opening a specially crafted page, an attacker could possibly exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash, or potentially execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2013-1682, CVE-2013-1683) Abhishek Arya discovered multiple use-after-free bugs. If the user were tricked into opening a specially crafted page, an attacker could possibly exploit these to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2013-1684, CVE-2013-1685, CVE-2013-1686) Mariusz Mlynski discovered that user defined code within the XBL scope of an element could be made to bypass System Only Wrappers (SOW). An attacker could potentially exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2013-1687) Mariusz Mlynski discovered that the profiler user interface incorrectly handled data from the profiler. If the user examined profiler output on a specially crafted page, an attacker could potentially exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2013-1688) A crash was discovered when reloading a page that contained content using the onreadystatechange event. An attacker could potentially exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox (CVE-2013-1690) Johnathan Kuskos discovered that Firefox sent data in the body of XMLHttpRequest HEAD requests. An attacker could exploit this to conduct Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks. (CVE-2013-1692) Paul Stone discovered a timing flaw in the processing of SVG images with filters. An attacker could exploit this to view sensitive information. (CVE-2013-1693) Boris Zbarsky discovered a flaw in PreserveWrapper. An attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2013-1694) Bob Owen discovered that a sandboxed iframe could use a frame element to bypass its own restrictions. (CVE-2013-1695) Frederic Buclin discovered that the X-Frame-Options header is ignored in multi-part responses. An attacker could potentially exploit this to conduct clickjacking attacks. (CVE-2013-1696) It was discovered that XrayWrappers could be bypassed to call content-defined methods in certain circumstances. An attacker could exploit this to cause undefined behaviour. (CVE-2013-1697) Matt Wobensmith discovered that the getUserMedia permission dialog displayed the wrong domain in certain circumstances. An attacker could potentially exploit this to trick the user in to giving a malicious site access to their microphone or camera. (CVE-2013-1698) It was discovered that the measures for preventing homograph attacks using Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) were not sufficient for certain Top Level Domains (TLD). An attacker could potentially exploit this to conduct URL spoofing and phishing attacks. (CVE-2013-1699). 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.
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    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/67186
    titleUbuntu 12.04 LTS / 12.10 / 13.04 : firefox regression (USN-1890-2)
  • NASL familyWindows
    NASL idMOZILLA_FIREFOX_22.NASL
    descriptionThe installed version of Firefox is earlier than 22.0 and is, therefore, potentially affected by the following vulnerabilities : - Various, unspecified memory safety issues exist. (CVE-2013-1682, CVE-2013-1683) - Heap-use-after-free errors exist related to
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    titleFirefox < 22.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities
  • NASL familyFreeBSD Local Security Checks
    NASL idFREEBSD_PKG_B3FCB387DE4B11E2B1C60025905A4771.NASL
    descriptionThe Mozilla Project reports : Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:22.0 / rv:17.0.7) Title: Memory corruption found using Address Sanitizer Privileged content access and execution via XBL Arbitrary code execution within Profiler Execution of unmapped memory through onreadystatechange Data in the body of XHR HEAD requests leads to CSRF attacks SVG filters can lead to information disclosure PreserveWrapper has inconsistent behavior Sandbox restrictions not applied to nested frame elements X-Frame-Options ignored when using server push with multi-part responses XrayWrappers can be bypassed to run user defined methods in a privileged context getUserMedia permission dialog incorrectly displays location Homograph domain spoofing in .com, .net and .name Inaccessible updater can lead to local privilege escalation
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    titleFreeBSD : mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities (b3fcb387-de4b-11e2-b1c6-0025905a4771)

Oval

accepted2014-10-06T04:01:54.932-04:00
classvulnerability
contributors
  • nameSergey Artykhov
    organizationALTX-SOFT
  • nameEvgeniy Pavlov
    organizationALTX-SOFT
  • nameEvgeniy Pavlov
    organizationALTX-SOFT
  • nameEvgeniy Pavlov
    organizationALTX-SOFT
definition_extensions
commentMozilla Firefox Mainline release is installed
ovaloval:org.mitre.oval:def:22259
descriptionMozilla Firefox before 22.0 does not properly implement certain DocShell inheritance behavior for the sandbox attribute of an IFRAME element, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via a FRAME element within an IFRAME element.
familywindows
idoval:org.mitre.oval:def:16433
statusaccepted
submitted2013-07-08T10:26:26.748+04:00
titleMozilla Firefox before 22.0 does not properly implement certain DocShell inheritance behavior for the sandbox attribute of an IFRAME element, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via a FRAME element within an IFRAME element
version23