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
6.7 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
Low
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
44.9%
K-Meleon Browser is prone to Address Bar Spoofing 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("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.800892");
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:"2009-09-08 18:25:53 +0200 (Tue, 08 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-2009-3008");
script_name("K-Meleon Address Bar Spoofing Vulnerability");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://lostmon.blogspot.com/2009/08/multiple-browsers-fake-url-folder-file.html");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"registry");
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2009 Greenbone AG");
script_family("General");
script_dependencies("gb_k-meleon_detect.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("K-Meleon/Ver");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation lets the attackers to spoof parts of the
address bar and modify page content on a host that a user may consider partly
trusted.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"K-Meleon Browser version 1.5.3 on Windows.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"Address bar can be spoofed via 'window.open()' with a relative
URI, to show an arbitrary URL on the web site visited by the victim, as
demonstrated by a visit to an attacker-controlled web page, which triggers a
spoofed login form for the site containing that page.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"No known solution was made available for at least one year since the disclosure
of this vulnerability. Likely none will be provided anymore. General solution options are to upgrade to a newer
release, disable respective features, remove the product or replace the product by another one.");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"K-Meleon Browser is prone to Address Bar Spoofing vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"WillNotFix");
exit(0);
}
include("version_func.inc");
kmeleonVer = get_kb_item("K-Meleon/Ver");
if(kmeleonVer)
{
if(version_is_equal(version:kmeleonVer, test_version:"1.5.3")){
security_message( port: 0, data: "The target host was found to be vulnerable" );
}
}