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Secunia Advisory SA10419

Mozilla Status Bar Manipulation Weakness
Secunia Advisory SA10419
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Release Date 2003-12-12
Last Update 2005-02-15
   
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Criticality level Not criticalNot critical
Impact Security Bypass
Spoofing
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
   
Software:
Mozilla 1.0
Mozilla 1.1
Mozilla 1.3
Mozilla 1.4
Mozilla 1.5

Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2004-1451 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

A weakness has been identified in Mozilla, which can be exploited by malicious people to manipulate information displayed in the status bar.

It is possible to manipulate information displayed in the status bar by including the URL encoded representation "%00" in a link. Since this can be done without using any script code, disabling the script setting "Change status bar text" will not prevent this.

This can be exploited to trick users, who have disabled script manipulation of the status bar and therefore trust information displayed in it.

A test is available at:
http://secunia.com/internet_explorer_address_bar_spoofing_test/

The weakness has been confirmed in Mozilla 1.0.2 for Linux and 1.5 for Windows. Other versions may also be affected.

NOTE: This issue is not the same as the Internet Explorer URL (Address Bar) Spoofing Vulnerability:
SA10395


Solution
The issue has been fixed in the 1.6 branch and the forthcoming version 1.4.2.
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