Mozilla Firefox Referer Header Spoofing Bug Permits Cross-Site Request Forgery Attacks
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SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1018995 |
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SecurityTracker URL: http://securitytracker.com/id/1018995
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CVE Reference:
CVE-2007-5960
(Links to External Site)
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Date: Nov 27 2007
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Impact:
Modification of user information
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Fix Available: Yes Vendor Confirmed: Yes
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Version(s): prior to 2.0.0.10
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Description:
A vulnerability was reported in Mozilla Firefox. A remote user can conduct cross-site request forgery attacks.
A remote user can exploit a race condition when setting the 'window.location' property to spoof the HTTP Referer header value. This allows the remote user to potentially cause scripting code to be executed in a window (or a frame), where the Referer value is set to the URI of the window instead of the calling page.
This can be used to bypass a web site's Referer checks.
Gregory Fleischer reported this vulnerability.
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Impact:
A remote user can bypass a web site's HTTP Referer checks in certain cases.
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Solution:
The vendor has issued a fixed version (2.0.0.10).
The Mozilla advisory is available at:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-39.html
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Vendor URL: www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-39.html (Links to External Site)
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Cause:
State error
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Underlying OS:
Linux (Any), UNIX (Any), Windows (Any)
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Message History:
This archive entry has one or more follow-up message(s) listed below.
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Source Message Contents
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Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:28:13 -0500
Subject: Mozilla Firefox
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http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-39.html
CVE-2007-5960
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