Mozilla Firefox Lets Remote Users Obscure Web Forgery Dialog Warnings.
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SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1019342 |
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SecurityTracker URL: http://securitytracker.com/id/1019342
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CVE Reference:
CVE-2008-0594
(Links to External Site)
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Date: Feb 8 2008
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Impact:
Modification of system information
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Fix Available: Yes Vendor Confirmed: Yes
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Version(s): prior to 2.0.0.12
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Description:
A vulnerability was reported in Mozilla Firefox. A remote user can obscure the web forgery warning dialog.
A remote user can create HTML with <div> tags with absolute positioning that, when loaded by the target user, will prevent a web forgery warning dialog from being displayed unless the target user switches tabs away-from then back-to the forged HTML page.
Emil Ljungdahl and Lars-Olof Moilanen reported this vulnerability.
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Impact:
A remote user can obscure the web forgery warning dialog.
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Solution:
The vendor has issued a fixed version (2.0.0.12).
The Mozilla advisory is available at:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-11.html
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Vendor URL: www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-11.html (Links to External Site)
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Cause:
Access control error
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Underlying OS:
Linux (Any), UNIX (Any), Windows (Any)
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Message History:
None.
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Source Message Contents
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Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 00:14:49 -0500
Subject: Mozilla Firefox
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http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-11.html
CVE-2008-0594
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