Tuesday, February 6, 2007

Firefox Popup Blocker Allows Reading Arbitrary Local Files

Via Securiteam.com -

There is an interesting vulnerability in the default behavior of Firefox built-in popup blocker. This vulnerability, coupled with an additional trick, allows the attacker to read arbitrary user-accessible files on the system, and thus steal some fairly sensitive information.
Credit:
The information has been provided by Michal Zalewski.

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