4.3 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
5.6 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.002 Low
EPSS
Percentile
55.7%
Mozilla Firefox is prone to a cross-site scripting (XSS) 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
CPE = "cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox";
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.800890");
script_version("2023-07-27T05:05:08+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2023-07-27 05:05:08 +0000 (Thu, 27 Jul 2023)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2009-09-07 19:45:38 +0200 (Mon, 07 Sep 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:P/A:N");
script_cve_id("CVE-2009-3012");
script_name("Mozilla Firefox 'data:' URI XSS Vulnerability (Sep 2009) - Linux");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://websecurity.com.ua/3323/");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://websecurity.com.ua/3386/");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2009 Greenbone AG");
script_family("General");
script_dependencies("gb_firefox_detect_lin.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("mozilla/firefox/linux/detected");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation will allow attackers to conduct Cross-Site Scripting
attacks in the victim's system.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Mozilla Firefox version 3.0.13 and prior, 3.5 and 3.6/3.7 a1 pre.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"Firefox fails to sanitise the 'data:' URIs in Location headers in HTTP
responses, which can be exploited via vectors related to injecting a Location
header or Location HTTP response header.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 3.6.3 or later.");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Mozilla Firefox is prone to a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"executable_version_unreliable");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
exit(0);
}
include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");
if(!infos = get_app_version_and_location(cpe:CPE, exit_no_version:TRUE))
exit(0);
version = infos["version"];
location = infos["location"];
if(version_is_less_equal(version:version, test_version:"3.0.13") ||
version_is_equal(version:version, test_version:"3.5") ||
version =~ "^3\.[67]a1pre") {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version:version, fixed_version:"3.6.3", install_path:location);
security_message(port:0, data:report);
exit(0);
}
exit(99);