Detections
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Mozilla Firefox 3.x < 3.0.6 Multiple Vulnerabilities
medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 4922
Synopsis
The remote host has a web browser installed that is vulnerable to multiple attack vectors.Description
Versions of Firefox 3.x prior to 3.0.6 are affected by the following security issues :- There are several stability bugs in the browser engine that may lead to crashes with evidence of memory corruption. (MFSA 2009-01)
- A chrome XBL method can be used in conjunction with 'window.eval' to execute arbitrary JavaScript within the context of another website, violating the same origin policy. (MFSA 2009-02)
- A form input control's type could be changed during the restoration of a closed tab to the path of a local file whose location was known to the attacker. (MFSA 2009-03)
- An attacker may be able to inject arbitrary code into a chrome document and then execute it with chrome privileges if he can trick a user into downloading a malicious HTML file and a .desktop shortcut file. (MFSA 2009-04)
- Cookies marked HTTPOnly are readable by JavaScript via the 'XMLHttpRequest.getResponseHeader' and 'XMLHttpRequest.getAllResponseHeaders' APIs. (MFSA 2009-05)
- The 'Cache-Control: no-store' and 'Cache-Control: no-cache' HTTP directives for HTTPS pages are ignored by Firefox 3, which could lead to exposure of sensitive information. (MFSA 2009-06).
Solution
Upgrade to Firefox 3.0.6 or higher.See Also
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-01.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-02.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-03.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-04.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-05.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-06.html
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 4922
Family: Web Clients
Published: 2/4/2009
Updated: 3/6/2019
Nessus ID: 35581
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 5.9
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.8
Temporal Score: 5.6
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5.6
Temporal Score: 5.2
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2009-0352, CVE-2009-0353, CVE-2009-0354, CVE-2009-0355, CVE-2009-0356, CVE-2009-0357, CVE-2009-0358
BID: 33598