Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2010-20
Chrome privilege escalation via forced URL drag and drop
- Announced
- March 30, 2010
- Reporter
- Paul Stone
- Impact
- Critical
- Products
- Firefox, SeaMonkey
- Fixed in
-
- Firefox 3.0.19
- Firefox 3.5.9
- Firefox 3.6.2
- SeaMonkey 2.0.4
Description
Security researcher Paul Stone reported that a
browser applet could be used to turn a simple mouse click into a
drag-and-drop action, potentially resulting in the unintended loading
of resources in a user's browser. This behavior could be used twice
in succession to first load a privileged chrome: URL in a
victim's browser, then load a malicious javascript: URL
on top of the same document resulting in arbitrary script execution
with chrome privileges.