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Mozilla Firefox JAR Protocol Client-Side Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

Title : Mozilla Firefox JAR Protocol Client-Side Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability
Advisory ID : FrSIRT/ADV-2007-3818
CVE ID : CVE-2007-5947
Rated as : Moderate Risk

Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2007-11-09

Advisory Details

Description

Affected Products

Solution

References

Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Mozilla Firefox, which could be exploited to conduct cross site scripting attacks and gain knowledge of sensitive information [...]

References

http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2007/3818
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=369814
http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/web-mayhem-firefoxs-jar-protocol-issues
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-37.html

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Jesse Ruderman, Petko D. Petkov, and beford.org.

ChangeLog

2007-11-09 : Initial release
2007-11-26 : Updated Solution

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