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Mozilla Firefox Install Source Spoofing

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Mozilla Firefox Install Source Spoofing

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
05/02/2005
Created
07/25/2018
Added
07/28/2005
Modified
02/13/2015

Description

The installation confirmation dialog in Firefox before 1.0.1, Thunderbird before 1.0.1, and Mozilla before 1.7.6 allows remote attackers to use InstallTrigger to spoof the hostname of the host performing the installation via a long "user:pass" sequence in the URL, which appears before the real hostname.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-1_0_1
  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-latest

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