Bug 188839 - CVE-2006-1729 File stealing by changing input type
Summary: CVE-2006-1729 File stealing by changing input type
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: firefox
Version: 5
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Christopher Aillon
QA Contact:
URL:
Whiteboard: reported=20060412,source=mozilla,emba...
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-04-13 03:34 UTC by Josh Bressers
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Environment:
Last Closed: 2006-04-27 12:53:55 UTC
Type: ---
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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
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