PT-2011-1257 · Mozilla · Firefox+2

Published 2011-12-07 · Updated 2017-08-29 · CVE-2002-2436

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 4.0 Thunderbird versions prior to 3.3 SeaMonkey versions prior to 2.1

Description The CSS implementation does not properly handle the :visited pseudo-class, allowing remote attackers to obtain sensitive information about visited web pages via a crafted HTML document.

Recommendations For Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 4.0, update to version 4.0 or later. For Thunderbird versions prior to 3.3, update to version 3.3 or later. For SeaMonkey versions prior to 2.1, update to version 2.1 or later.

Exploit

Fix

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

CVE-2002-2436

Affected Products

Firefox

Seamonkey

Thunderbird

References · 6

• 🔥 http://w2spconf.com/2010/papers/p26.pdf · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2002-2436 · Security Note
• http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147777 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/71816 · Note
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS/Privacy_and_the_:visited_selector · Note
• http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2010/03/31/plugging-the-css-history-leak · Note