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HistoryFeb 19, 2014 - 12:00 a.m.

Mozilla Firefox Cookie Verification Denial of Service Vulnerability - Windows

2014-02-1900:00:00
Copyright (C) 2014 Greenbone AG
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6.5 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.005 Low

EPSS

Percentile

77.2%

Mozilla Firefox is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 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("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.804501");
  script_version("2024-02-15T05:05:40+0000");
  script_cve_id("CVE-2013-6167");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"6.8");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2024-02-15 05:05:40 +0000 (Thu, 15 Feb 2024)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2014-02-19 11:18:41 +0530 (Wed, 19 Feb 2014)");
  script_name("Mozilla Firefox Cookie Verification Denial of Service Vulnerability - Windows");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Mozilla Firefox is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.");

  script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");

  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"Flaw is due to improper handling of the browser.cookie cookie header.");

  script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation will allow attackers to terminate a user's session on
  a website, which will not allow the attacker to log back in to the website
  until after the browser has been restarted.");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Mozilla Firefox version 19.0 on Windows.");

  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:"qod_type", value:"registry");
  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"WillNotFix");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q4/121");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/62969");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://redmine.lighttpd.net/issues/2188");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=858215");
  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2014 Greenbone AG");
  script_family("Denial of Service");
  script_dependencies("gb_firefox_detect_portable_win.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("Firefox/Win/Ver");
  exit(0);
}

include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");

if(!ffVer = get_app_version(cpe:CPE)){
  exit(0);
}

if(version_is_equal(version:ffVer, test_version:"19.0"))
{
  security_message( port: 0, data: "The target host was found to be vulnerable" );
  exit(0);
}

6.5 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.005 Low

EPSS

Percentile

77.2%

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