4.3 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
6.3 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
Low
0.835 High
EPSS
Percentile
98.5%
Mozilla Firefox browser is prone to XUL Parsing Vulnerability.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.800389");
script_version("2024-02-15T05:05:39+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2024-02-15 05:05:39 +0000 (Thu, 15 Feb 2024)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2009-04-08 08:04:29 +0200 (Wed, 08 Apr 2009)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"4.3");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_cve_id("CVE-2009-1232");
script_name("Firefox XUL Parsing Denial of Service Vulnerability - Windows");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/8306");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/49521");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2009 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Denial of Service");
script_dependencies("gb_firefox_detect_portable_win.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("Firefox/Win/Ver");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation will allow attacker to cause the browser to crash.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Firefox version 3.0 to 3.0.8 on Windows.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"Error in browser due to improper parsing of XUL (XML) documents while opening
a specially-crafted XML document containing long series of start-tags with no
corresponding end-tags.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Upgrade to Firefox version 3.6.3 or later.");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Mozilla Firefox browser is prone to XUL Parsing Vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"registry");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
exit(0);
}
include("version_func.inc");
vers = get_kb_item("Firefox/Win/Ver");
if(!vers)
exit(0);
if(version_in_range(version:vers, test_version:"3.0", test_version2:"3.0.8")){
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version:vers, vulnerable_range:"3.0 - 3.0.8");
security_message(port: 0, data: report);
}