Bug 188839

Summary: CVE-2006-1729 File stealing by changing input type
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component: firefoxAssignee: Christopher Aillon <caillon>
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Description Josh Bressers 2006-04-13 03:34:49 UTC 
File stealing by changing input type


Claus Jørgensen reports that a text input box can be pre-filled with a
filename  and then turned into a file-upload control with the contents
intact, allowing a malicious website the ability to steal any local file
whose name they can guess.

Jesse Ruderman reports a variation, changing the type of the input control
in an event handler to work around some of the initial checks.

Workaround

Upgrade to fixed version.

References

[1]https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=325947
[2]https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=328566


This issue also affects FC4
Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2006-04-27 12:53:55 UTC 
These issues have been resolved in FEDORA-2006-411 for FC5 and FEDORA-2006-410
for FC4