Detections
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Mozilla FTP View URL Title Tag XSS (deprecated)

low Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 1315

Synopsis

The remote host is vulnerable to a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack.

Description

The remote host is running a version of the Mozilla browser that contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability. When viewing the contents of a FTP site as web content from a ftp:// URL, the directory name is included in the HTML representation. It is not adequately sanetized before this occurs. An attacker may embed javascript as this value between opening and closing "<title>" tags in a FTP URLL

Solution

Upgrade to the latest version of Mozilla or disable Javascript.

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 1315

Family: SMTP Clients

Published: 8/20/2004

Updated: 3/6/2019

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.7

Temporal Score: 3.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:H/RL:O/RC:X

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:mozilla:mozilla

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2002-2359

BID: 5403