Same-origin violations when Adobe Flash loaded via view-source: scheme — Mozilla

2009-04-2100:00:00

Mozilla Foundation

www.mozilla.org

CVSS2

6.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

EPSS

0.019

Percentile

88.7%

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Security researcher Gregory Fleischer reported that when an Adobe Flash file is loaded via the view-source: scheme, the Flash plugin misinterprets the origin of the content as localhost, leading to two specific vulnerabilities:

Affected configurations

Vulners

Node

mozillafirefoxRange<3.0.9

mozillaseamonkeyRange<1.1.17

mozillathunderbirdRange<2.0.0.22

VendorProductVersionCPE
mozillafirefox*cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozillaseamonkey*cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozillathunderbird*cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE
mozilla	firefox	*	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox::::::::
mozilla	seamonkey	*	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey::::::::
mozilla	thunderbird	*	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird::::::::