Mozilla Firefox Drag and Drop Handling Same Origin Policy Bypass Vulnerability

Last Update Date: 6 Jan 2012 10:37 Release Date: 6 Jan 2012 5736 Views

RISK: Medium Risk

TYPE: Clients - Browsers

A vulnerability has been identified in Mozilla Firefox, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error when handling drag and drop events and can be exploited to bypass the same origin policy and e.g. execute script code in the context of another domain.

Impact

Security Restriction Bypass

System / Technologies affected

Mozilla Firefox 9.x

Solutions

Do not perform suspicious actions on untrusted web sites.

Vulnerability Identifier

No CVE information is available

Source

Secunia