Security Advisory SA11999 - Mozilla XPInstall Dialog Box Security Issue

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Secunia Advisory SA11999

Mozilla XPInstall Dialog Box Security Issue

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SA11999

Release Date

2004-07-05

Last Update

2004-08-03

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Criticality level

Moderately critical

Impact

System access

Where

From remote

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Solution Status

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CVE-2004-0762 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

Description

Jesse Ruderman has reported a security issue in Mozilla and Mozilla Firefox, allowing malicious websites to trick users into accepting security dialog boxes.

The problem is that it may be possible to trick users into typing or clicking on a XPInstall / Security dialog box, using various interactive events, without the user noticing the dialog box.

Successful exploitation may allow a malicious website to perform tasks that require user interaction.

Solution
This has been fixed in Mozilla 1.7 and Mozilla Firefox 0.9.

Provided and/or discovered by
Jesse Ruderman

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Original Advisory
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162020

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