PT-2007-3118 · Mozilla · Firefox

Published 2007-03-30 · Updated 2018-10-16 · CVE-2007-1762

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Mozilla Firefox versions 2.0.0.1 through 2.0.0.3

Description: The issue allows remote attackers to bypass phishing protection by utilizing multiple / (slash) characters in the URL, due to the failure to canonicalize URLs before checking them against the phishing site blacklist.

Recommendations: For Mozilla Firefox versions 2.0.0.1 through 2.0.0.3, update to a version that properly canonicalizes URLs to prevent bypassing of phishing protection.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2007-1762

Affected Products

Firefox

References · 4

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-1762 · Security Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/33486 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/464149/100/0/threaded · Note
• http://osvdb.org/34535 · Note