5 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
9.5 High
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
73.5%
Mozilla Firefox is prone to cache objects history enumeration weakness vulnerability.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 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("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.802547");
script_version("2024-02-15T05:05:39+0000");
script_cve_id("CVE-2011-4688");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2024-02-15 05:05:39 +0000 (Thu, 15 Feb 2024)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2011-12-09 17:47:27 +0530 (Fri, 09 Dec 2011)");
script_name("Mozilla Firefox Cache Objects History Enumeration Weakness Vulnerability - Windows");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://secunia.com/advisories/47090");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/cachetime/");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2011 Greenbone AG");
script_family("General");
script_dependencies("gb_firefox_detect_portable_win.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("Firefox/Win/Ver");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation allows remote attackers to extraction
browser history by observing cache timing via crafted JavaScript code.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Mozilla Firefox versions 8.0.1 and prior on Windows.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The flaw is caused due an error in handling cache objects and
can be exploited to enumerate visited sites.");
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:"Mozilla Firefox is prone to cache objects history enumeration weakness vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"registry");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"WillNotFix");
exit(0);
}
include("version_func.inc");
ffVer = get_kb_item("Firefox/Win/Ver");
if(ffVer)
{
if(version_is_less_equal(version:ffVer, test_version:"8.0.1")){
security_message( port: 0, data: "The target host was found to be vulnerable" );
}
}