PT-2011-1258 · Mozilla · Firefox+2

Published 2011-12-07 · Updated 2012-03-08 · CVE-2002-2437

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/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 issue is related to the JavaScript implementation, which does not properly restrict the set of values contained in the object returned by the getComputedStyle method. This allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information about visited web pages by calling this method.

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

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

CVE-2002-2437

Affected Products

Firefox

Seamonkey

Thunderbird

References · 5

• 🔥 http://w2spconf.com/2010/papers/p26.pdf · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2002-2437 · Security Note
• http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147777 · 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