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Mozilla Firefox Address Bar Spoofing Vulnerability (Jun 2010) - Windows

🗓️ 02 Jul 2010 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2010 Greenbone AGType 
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Mozilla Firefox Address Bar Spoofing Vulnerability on Windows. Flaw in 'startDocumentLoad()' function allows spoofing attacks by displaying arbitrary content while showing a trusted URL in the address bar

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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2010 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("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.902209");
  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:"2010-07-02 08:02:13 +0200 (Fri, 02 Jul 2010)");
  script_cve_id("CVE-2010-1206");
  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_name("Mozilla Firefox Address Bar Spoofing Vulnerability (Jun 2010) - Windows");
  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"executable_version");
  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2010 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 will let attackers to conduct spoofing attacks.");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Firefox version before 3.6.6.");

  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The flaw is due to error in the 'startDocumentLoad()' function in
  'browser/base/content/browser.js', fails to implement Same Origin Policy.
  This can be exploited to display arbitrary content in the blank document
  while showing the URL of a trusted web site in the address bar.");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Upgrade to Firefox version 3.6.6 or later.");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Mozilla Firefox is prone to spoofing vulnerability.");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://secunia.com/advisories/40283");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/cadddabb1178");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2010/06/yeah-about-that-address-bar-thing.html");

  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");

  exit(0);
}

include("version_func.inc");

ffVer = get_kb_item("Firefox/Win/Ver");
if(ffVer)
{
  if(version_is_less(version:ffVer, test_version:"3.6.6")){
    report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version:ffVer, fixed_version:"3.6.6");
    security_message(port: 0, data: report);
  }
}

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