CVE-2013-1727
Description
Mozilla Firefox before 24.0 on Android allows attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy, and consequently conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks or obtain password or cookie information, by using a symlink in conjunction with a file: URL for a local file.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Exploits
Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.
Exploit-DB
Mozilla Firefox 9.0.1 - Same Origin Policy Security Bypass
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-September/115907.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-September/116610.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-September/117526.html
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-84.html
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=782581
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-September/115907.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-September/116610.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-September/117526.html
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-84.html
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=782581
CWEs
CWE-79
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.