Firefox URL Spoofing And Phising Vulnerability - Windows
🗓️ 26 Feb 2009 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2009 Greenbone AGType
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| Source | Link |
|---|---|
| blackhat | www.blackhat.com/html/bh-dc-09/bh-dc-09-speakers.html |
| mozilla | www.mozilla.org/projects/security/tld-idn-policy-list.html |
| securityfocus | www.securityfocus.com/bid/33837 |
# 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("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.900513");
script_version("2025-03-05T05:38:52+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-03-05 05:38:52 +0000 (Wed, 05 Mar 2025)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2009-02-26 05:27:20 +0100 (Thu, 26 Feb 2009)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.8");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P");
script_cve_id("CVE-2009-0652");
script_name("Firefox URL Spoofing And Phising Vulnerability - Windows");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/tld-idn-policy-list.html");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33837");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-dc-09/bh-dc-09-speakers.html#Marlinspike");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2009 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 remote exploitation will let the attacker spoof the URL
information by using homoglyphs of say the /(slash) and ?(question mark)and
can gain sensitive information by redirecting the user to any malicious URL.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Mozilla Firefox version 3.0.6 and prior on Windows.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"Firefox doesn't properly prevent the literal rendering of homoglyph
characters in IDN domain names. This renders the user vulnerable to URL
spoofing and phising attacks as the atatcker may redirect the user to a
different arbitrary malformed website.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Upgrade to Mozilla Firefox version 3.6.3 or later");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Mozilla Firefox browser is prone to URL spoofing and phising vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"registry");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
exit(0);
}
include("version_func.inc");
firefoxVer = get_kb_item("Firefox/Win/Ver");
if(!firefoxVer){
exit(0);
}
if(version_is_less_equal(version:firefoxVer, test_version:"3.0.6")){
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version:firefoxVer, vulnerable_range:"Less than or equal to 3.0.6");
security_message(port: 0, data: report);
}
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05 Mar 2025 00:00Current
9.6High risk
Vulners AI Score9.6
CVSS 25.8
EPSS0.01497