Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2013-37
Bypass of tab-modal dialog origin disclosure
- Announced
- April 2, 2013
- Reporter
- shutdown
- Impact
- Moderate
- Products
- Firefox, SeaMonkey
- Fixed in
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- Firefox 20
- SeaMonkey 2.17
Description
Security researcher shutdown reported a method for removing the origin indication on tab-modal dialog boxes in combination with browser navigation. This could allow an attacker's dialog to overlay a page and show another site's content. This can be used for phishing by allowing users to enter data into a modal prompt dialog on an attacking, site while appearing to be from the displayed site.