78741 : Mozilla Multiple Products Firefox Sync Key Export Permission Weakness Firefox Recovery Key.html Information Disclosure
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Timeline

Disclosure Date
2012-02-01

Description

Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla SeaMonkey contain a flaw that may lead to an unauthorized information disclosure. The issue is triggered when the 'Firefox Recovery Key.html' file being saved with insecure file permissions when exporting the Firefox Sync key, which will disclose the contents of that file to a remote attacker.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Information Disclosure
Impact: Loss of Confidentiality
Solution: Upgrade
Exploit: Exploit Private
Disclosure: Vendor Verified
OSVDB: Web Related

Solution

Upgrade Firefox to version 10.0 or higher, and SeaMonkey to version 2.7 or higher, as they have been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

Mozilla Organization	Firefox	9.0.1
Mozilla Organization	SeaMonkey	2.7 Beta 5

References

Security Tracker: 1026605
CVE ID: 2012-0450 (see also: NVD)
SCIP VulDB ID: 4592
Secunia Advisory ID: 47816 47840 47902 47980
Bugtraq ID: 51787
ISS X-Force ID: 72869
Related OSVDB ID: 78733 78734 78735 78736 78737 78738 78739 78740
Mail List Post: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-02/msg00011.html
Vendor Specific News/Changelog Entry: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-02/msg00026.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1355-1/
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1355-2/
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1355-3/
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=716868 [ Auth Req'd ]
Other Advisory URL: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:013
Vendor URL: http://www.mozilla.org/
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-09.html

Credit

magicant starmen

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 2.1
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2012-02-02 | Disagree?

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