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Firefox < 1.0 Multiple Spoofing Vulnerabilities

critical Nessus Plugin ID 14181

Synopsis

The remote Windows host has a web browser installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

Description

The remote host is using Mozilla and/or Firefox, an alternative web browser. This web browser supports the XUL (XML User Interface Language), a language designed to manipulate the user interface of the browser itself.

Since XUL gives the full control of the browser GUI to the visited websites, an attacker may use it to spoof a third-party website and, therefore, pretend that the URL and Certificates of the website are legitimate.

In addition to this, the remote version of this browser is vulnerable to a flaw which may allow a malicious website to spoof security properties such as SSL certificates and URIs.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

See Also

http://www.nd.edu/~jsmith30/xul/test/spoof.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 14181

File Name: mozilla_firefox_xul_spoof.nasl

Version: 1.27

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows

Published: 8/2/2004

Updated: 7/16/2018

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/25/2004

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-0763, CVE-2004-0764

BID: 10796, 10832