Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2010-20

Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2010-20 Title: Chrome privilege escalation via forced URL drag and drop Impact: Critical Announced: March 30, 2010 Reporter: Paul Stone Products: Firefox, SeaMonkey Fixed in: Firefox 3.6.2 Firefox 3.5.9 Firefox 3.0.19 SeaMonkey 2.0.4 Description Security...

Chrome privilege escalation via forced URL drag and drop — Mozilla

Security researcher Paul Stone reported that a browser applet could be used to turn a simple mouse click into a drag-and-drop action, potentially resulting in the unintended loading of resources in a user's browser. This behavior could be used twice in succession to first load a privileged chrome...