Firefox Privacy Broken If Used to Open Web Page File

2008-10-16 / 2008-10-17

Credit: Liu Die Yu

Risk: Low

Local: No

Remote: Yes

CVE: CVE-2008-4582

CWE: CWE-264

CVSS Base Score: 4.3/10

Impact Subscore: 2.9/10

Exploitability Subscore: 8.6/10

Exploit range: Remote

Attack complexity: Medium

Authentication: No required

Confidentiality impact: Partial

Integrity impact: None

Availability impact: None

Brief from my Twitter:
The effect is exposing any location, incl your browsing
history(about:cache etc) 04:54 AM October 05, 2008 from web
Workaround: Do not use Firefox to open HTM/HTML - not from RAR package,
not from remote Windows share folder, not from local, etc. 04:36 AM
October 05, 2008 from web
Some details from my blog:
* Also works on Firefox 3.0.3
* Also works on Firefox 3.0.2
...
For Firefox, location is wrong when dot URL shortcut is launched by HTML
elements. Slightly variant from CVE-2008-2810 which is about command
line and only fixed in that perspective.
...
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Complete details and demo are available at
http://liudieyu0.blog124.fc2.com/blog-entry-6.html

References:

http://liudieyu0.blog124.fc2.com/blog-entry-6.html

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