Feed protocol with POST bypasses mixed content protections — Mozilla

Security researcher Masato Kinugawa reported that opening a target page using a POST to the url prefixed with the feed: protocol disables the mixed content blocker for that page. This could allow for the risk of a man-in-the-middle MITM scripting attack on pages that accidentally include insecure...

Referrer policy ignored when links opened by middle-click and context menu — Mozilla

Security researcher Alex Verstak reported that is ignored when a link is opened through the context menu or a middle-click by mouse. This means that, in some situations, the referrer policy is ignored when opening links in new tabs and may cause some pages to open without an HTTP Referer header...

Use-after-free in event listeners — Mozilla

Security researchers Tyson Smith and Jesse Schwartzentruber of the BlackBerry Security Automated Analysis Team used the Address Sanitizer tool while fuzzing to discover a user-after-free when interacting with event listeners from the mListeners array. This leads to a potentially exploitable crash...

Wrong principal used for validating URI for some Javascript components — Mozilla

Security researcher Cody Crews reported that some Javascript components will perform checks against the wrong uniform resource identifier URI before performing security sensitive actions. This will return an incorrect location for the originator of the call. This could be used to bypass same-orig...

Memory corruption while rendering grayscale PNG images — Mozilla

Mozilla community member Tobias Schula reported that if gfx.colormanagement.enablev4 preference is enabled manually in about:config, some grayscale PNG images will be rendered incorrectly and cause memory corruption during PNG decoding when certain color profiles are in use. A crafted PNG image...

Stealing of cross-domain images using WebGL textures — Mozilla

Security research firm Context IS discovered that an image from a different domain could be loaded into a WebGL texture, and then each pixel could be rendered into a canvas element with a shader program, creating an approximation of the image in a form that was readable by the creator of the WebG...

Crash caused by corrupted JPEG image — Mozilla

Security researcher Jordi Chancel reported that a JPEG image could be constructed that would be decoded incorrectly, causing data to be written past the end of a buffer created to store the image. An attacker could potentially craft such an image that would cause malicious code to be stored in...

Heap buffer overflow mixing document.write and DOM insertion — Mozilla

Morten Kråkvik of Telenor SOC reported an exploit targeting particular versions of Firefox 3.6 on Windows XP that Telenor found while investigating an intrusion attempt on a customer network. The underlying vulnerability, however, was present on both the Firefox 3.5 and Firefox 3.6 development...

Dangling pointer vulnerability in nsTreeContentView — Mozilla

Security researcher regenrecht reported via TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative that the implementation of XUL 's content view contains a dangling pointer vulnerability. One of the content view's methods for accessing the internal structure of the tree could be manipulated into removing a node pri...

Cross-origin data leakage from script filename in error messages — Mozilla

Security researcher Soroush Dalili reported that potentially sensitive URL parameters could be leaked across domains upon script errors when the script filename and line number is included in the error message...

Dangling pointer vulnerability in nsTreeContentView — Mozilla

Security researcher regenrecht reported via TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative an error in the way elements are inserted into a XUL tree . In certain cases, the number of references to an element is under-counted so that when the element is deleted, a live pointer to its old location is kept arou...

XMLDocument::load() doesn't check nsIContentPolicy — Mozilla

Mozilla community member Wladimir Palant reported that XML documents were failing to call certain security checks when loading new content. This could result in certain resources being loaded that would otherwise violate security policies set by the browser or installed add-ons...

Arbitrary domain cookie access by local file: resources — Mozilla

Security researcher Gregory Fleischer reported that local resources loaded via the file: protocol can access any domain's cookies which have been saved on a user's machine. Fleischer demonstrated that a local document's domain was being calculated incorrectly from its URL. If a victim could be...

Java socket connection to any local port via LiveConnect — Mozilla

Security researcher Gregory Fleischer demonstrated that web content fetched via the jar: protocol can use Java via LiveConnect to open socket connections to arbitrary ports on the user's machine "localhost". The issue is caused by improper parsing of the content origin passed from the browser to...

Web browsing history and forward navigation stealing — Mozilla

Mozilla contributor David Bloom reported a vulnerability in the way images are treated by the browser when a user leaves a page which utilizes designMode frames. The reported issue can be used to steal a user's navigation history, forward navigation information, and crash the user's browser. The...

File input focus stealing vulnerability — Mozilla

A user on the Sla.ckers.org forums named hong reported that a file upload control could be filled programmatically by switching page focus to the label before a file upload form control for selected keyboard events. An attacker could use this trick to steal files from the users' computer if the...

Possible file stealing through sftp protocol — Mozilla

On Linux machines with gnome-vfs support the smb: and sftp: URI schemes are available in Firefox. Georgi Guninski showed that if an attacker can store the attack page in a mutually accessible location on the target server /tmp perhaps and lure the victim into loading it, the attacker could...

Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) SSLv2 buffer overflows — Mozilla

iDefense has informed Mozilla about two potential buffer overflow vulnerabilities found by researcher regenrecht in the Network Security Services NSS code for processing the SSLv2 protocol...

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 151 — Mozilla

Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 150. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. Memory safety bugs present in Firefox ESR 140.10 and Firefox 150. Some of these bugs showed...

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 102.14 — Mozilla

Offscreen Canvas did not properly track cross-origin tainting, which could have been used to access image data from another site in violation of same-origin policy. In some circumstances, a stale value could have been used for a global variable in WASM JIT analysis. This resulted in incorrect...

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox for iOS 102 — Mozilla

Internal URLs are protected by a secret UUID key, which could have been leaked to web page through the Referrer header...

Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 45.6 — Mozilla

Use-after-free while manipulating DOM events and removing audio elements due to errors in the handling of node adoption. Event handlers on marquee elements were executed despite a strict Content Security Policy CSP that disallowed inline JavaScript. Memory corruption resulting in a potentially...

Form input type change from password to text can store plain text password in session restore file — Mozilla

Mozilla employee Mike Kaply reported that the Firefox session restore data can contain passwords in plain text if a password input field on a page has its type changed from "password" to "text" during a session. This can occur if the password input field has a scripted mechanism to display the...

Content provider permission bypass allows malicious application to access data — Mozilla

Security researcher Ken Okuyama reported an issue on Firefox for Android where a previously installed malicious application can access content provider permissions for Firefox in order to read data. This data includes browser history and locally saved passwords. This issue occurs when a list of...

Use-after-free with shared workers and IndexedDB — Mozilla

Security researcher Looben Yang discovered a use-after-free vulnerability when using a shared worker with IndexedDB due to a race condition with the worker. This results in a potentially exploitable crash that can be triggered through web content...

URL spoofing in reader mode — Mozilla

Security researcher Juho Nurminen reported a mechanism to spoof the URL displayed in the addressbar in reader mode by manipulating the loaded URL. This flaw allows for the URL displayed to be different than that the web content rendered. This allows for potential spoofing but the effects are...

Use-after-free in XMLHttpRequest with shared workers — Mozilla

Security researcher Looben Yang discovered a use-after-free vulnerability when recursively calling .open on an XMLHttpRequest in a SharedWorker...

Arbitrary file overwriting through Mozilla Maintenance Service with hard links — Mozilla

Security researcher James Forshaw, security researcher with Google Project Zero, reported that the Mozilla Maintenance Service on Windows can be made to write its log file in a restricted location with an arbitrary file name through the use of a hard link by means of a race condition. This can...

Profile directory file access through file: protocol — Mozilla

Security researcher Yu Dongsong reported on Firefox for Android that a file: protocol hyperlink could link to a local file in the Firefox profile directory, bypassing access restrictions. This issue was previously addressed in Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2014-33 but not completely...

Toolbar dialog customization event spoofing — Mozilla

Mozilla developers David Chan and Gijs Kruitbosch reported that it is possible to create a drag and drop event in web content which mimics the behavior of a chrome customization event. This can occur when a user is customizing a page or panel. This results in a limited ability to move UI icons...

Application Installation doorhanger persists on navigation — Mozilla

Mozilla developer Myk Melez reported that with specifically timed page navigation, the doorhanger notification for Web App installation could persist from one site to another without being dismissed by the navigation. This could be used by a malicious site to trick a user into installing an...

Improper state in HTML5 Tree Builder with templates — Mozilla

Using the Address Sanitizer tool, security researcher Atte Kettunen from OUSPG found that the HTML5 Tree Builder does not properly store state when interacting with template elements. Because some stack information is incorrectly stored, the template insertion mode stack can be used when it is...

Use after free mutating DOM during SetBody — Mozilla

Security researcher Nils used the Address Sanitizer to discover a use-after-free problem when the Document Object Model is modified during a SetBody mutation event. This causes a potentially exploitable crash...

Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:23.0 / rv:17.0.8) — Mozilla

Mozilla developers identified and fixed several memory safety bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances, and we presume that with enough effort at least some of these could be...

Web content bypass of COW and SOW security wrappers — Mozilla

Mozilla developer Bobby Holley discovered that it was possible to bypass some protections in Chrome Object Wrappers COW and System Only Wrappers SOW, making their prototypes mutable by web content. This could be used leak information from chrome objects and possibly allow for arbitrary code...

Use-after-free in ListenerManager — Mozilla

Security researcher regenrecht reported, via TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative, a use-after-free within the ListenerManager when garbage collection is forced after data in listener objects have been allocated in some circumstances. This results in a use-after-free which can lead to arbitrary cod...

Javascript: URLs run in privileged context on New Tab page — Mozilla

Security researcher [email protected] reported that if a javascript: URL is selected from the list of Firefox "new tab" page, the script will inherit the privileges of the privileged "new tab" page. This allows for the execution of locally installed programs if a user can be convinced to save a...

Escalation of privilege through about:newtab — Mozilla

Security researcher Mariusz Mlynski reported that when a page opens a new tab, a subsequent window can then be opened that can be navigated to about:newtab, a chrome privileged page. Once about:newtab is loaded, the special context can potentially be used to escalate privilege, allowing for...

Multiple WebGL crashes — Mozilla

Mozilla security researcher Christoph Diehl reported two crashes in WebGL code. One crash was the result of an out-of-bounds read and could be used to read data from other processes who had stored data in the GPU. The severity of this issue was determined to be high. The second crash was the resu...

Directory traversal in resource: protocol — Mozilla

Security researcher Soroush Dalili reported that the resource: protocol could be exploited to allow directory traversal on Windows and the potential loading of resources from non-permitted locations. The impact would depend on whether interesting files existed in predictable locations in a useful...

Location bar SSL spoofing using network error page — Mozilla

Google security researcher Michal Zalewski reported that when a window was opened to a site resulting in a network or certificate error page, the opening site could access the document inside the opened window and inject arbitrary content. An attacker could use this bug to spoof the location bar...

Information leak via XMLHttpRequest statusText — Mozilla

Matt Haggard reported that the statusText property of an XMLHttpRequest object is readable by the requester even when the request is made across origins. This status information reveals the presence of a web server and could be used to gather information about servers on internal private networks...

Use-after-free error in NodeIterator — Mozilla

Security researcher regenrecht reported via TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative an error in Mozilla's implementation of NodeIterator in which a malicious NodeFilter could be created which would detach nodes from the DOM tree while it was being traversed. The use of a detached and subsequently...

Use-after-free error in nsCycleCollector::MarkRoots() — Mozilla

Security researcher wushi of team509 reported that the frame construction process for certain types of menus could result in a menu containing a pointer to a previously freed menu item. During the cycle collection process, this freed item could be accessed, resulting in the execution of a section...

Privilege escalation via chrome window.opener — Mozilla

Security researcher David James reported that a content window which is opened by a chrome window retains a reference to the chrome window via the window.opener property. Using this reference, content in the new window can access functions inside the chrome window, such as eval, and use these...

Heap buffer overflow in string to number conversion — Mozilla

Security researcher Alin Rad Pop of Secunia Research reported a heap-based buffer overflow in Mozilla's string to floating point number conversion routines. Using this vulnerability an attacker could craft some malicious JavaScript code containing a very long string to be converted to a floating...

Heap/integer overflows in font glyph rendering libraries — Mozilla

oCERT security researcher Will Drewry reported a series of heap and integer overflow vulnerabilities which independently affected multiple font glyph rendering libraries. On Linux platforms libpango was susceptible to the vulnerabilities while on OS X CoreGraphics was similarly vulnerable. An...

Errors parsing URLs with leading whitespace and control characters — Mozilla

Perl developer Chip Salzenberg reported that certain control characters, when placed at the beginning of a URL, would lead to incorrect parsing resulting in a malformed URL being output by the parser. IBM researchers Justin Schuh, Tom Cross, and Peter William also reported a related symptom as pa...

jar: URI scheme XSS hazard — Mozilla

The jar: URI scheme was introduced as a mechanism to support digitally signed web pages, enabling web sites to load pages packaged in zip archives containing signatures in java-archive format...

Remote code execution by launching Firefox from Internet Explorer — Mozilla

Internet Explorer calls registered URL protocols without escaping quotes and may be used to pass unexpected and potentially dangerous data to the application that registers that URL Protocol...