Mozilla Firefox 3.0.10 / SeaMonkey 1.1.16 - Address Bar URI Spoofing

Author: Pavel Cvrcek
type: remote
platform: linux
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date_added: 2009-05-11 
date_updated: 2014-04-26 
verified: 1 
codes: CVE-2009-1834;OSVDB-55162 
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source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35388/info

Mozilla Firefox and SeaMonkey are affected by a URI-spoofing vulnerability because they fail to adequately handle user-supplied data.

An attacker may leverage this issue by inserting arbitrary content to spoof a URI presented to an unsuspecting user. This may lead to a false sense of trust because the victim may be presented with a URI of a seemingly trusted site while interacting with the attacker's malicious site.

Versions *prior to* the following are affected:

Firefox 3.0.11
SeaMonkey 1.1.17

NOTE: This issue was previously covered in BID 35326 (Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird/SeaMonkey MFSA 2009-24 through -32 Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities), but has been assigned its own record to better document it.


The following example URI is available:

https://www.example.xn--com-edoaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.example2.org/

This URI would be decoded as 'www.example.com' followed by multiple 'U+115a' characters and '.example2.org'.