Secunia Advisory SA23046

Firefox Password Manager Information Disclosure
Secunia Advisory SA23046
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Release Date 2006-11-22
Last Update 2007-03-05
   
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Criticality level Less criticalLess critical
Impact Exposure of sensitive information
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Unpatched
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
   
Software:
Mozilla Firefox 1.x
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.x
Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.0.x

Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2006-6077 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description
A vulnerability has been discovered in Firefox, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct phishing attacks.

The vulnerability is caused due to the Password Manager not properly checking the URL before automatically filling in saved user credentials into forms. This may be exploited to steal user credentials via malicious forms in the same domain.

The vulnerability is confirmed in version 2.0.0, 2.0.0.2 and 1.5.0.10. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution
Disable the Password Manager in the preferences.

Provided and/or discovered by
Robert Chapin and RSnake

Changelog
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
http://www.info-svc.com/news/11-21-2006/

http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20060821/stealing-user-information-via-automatic-form-filling/
http://sla.ckers.org/forum/read.php?2,131

Other references
Further details available in Customer Area

Deep Links
Links available in Customer Area


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