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>> Mozilla Firefox URL Processing Address Bar Spoofing Vulnerability

Title : Mozilla Firefox URL Processing Address Bar Spoofing Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2009-2006
CVE ID : CVE-2009-2654
CWE ID : VUPEN VNS Only
CVSS V2 : VUPEN VNS Only
Rated as : Low Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2009-07-27


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A vulnerability has been identified in Mozilla Firefox, which could be exploited to conduct spoofing and phishing attacks. This issue is caused by an error when processing the URL while opening a new tab window, which could allow attackers to spoof the URL displayed in the address bar by tricking a user into following a link containing a specially crafted "window.open()" call.

Affected Products

Mozilla Firefox version 3.5 and prior
Mozilla Firefox version 3.0.12 and prior

Solution

Upgrade to Mozilla Firefox version 3.5.2 or 3.0.13 :
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2006
http://es.geocities.com/jplopezy/firefoxspoofing.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-44.html

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Juan Pablo Lopez Yacubian.

ChangeLog

2009-07-27 : Initial release
2009-08-04 : Updated Solution

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