Bug 1039419 (CVE-2013-5611) - CVE-2013-5611 Mozilla: Application Installation doorhanger persists on navigation (MFSA 2013-105)
Summary: CVE-2013-5611 Mozilla: Application Installation doorhanger persists on naviga...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2013-5611
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1030244
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-12-09 04:12 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-12 01:18 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-12-09 05:04:37 UTC
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-12-09 04:12:05 UTC
Mozilla developer Myk Melez reported that with specifically timed page navigation, the doorhanger notification for Web App installation could persist from one site to another without being dismissed by the navigation. This could be used by a malicious site to trick a user into installing an application from one site while making it appear to come from another.



External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-105.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Myk Melez as the original reporter.

Statement:

This issue does not affect the version of firefox and thunderbird as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6


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