Greasemonkey Multiple Remote Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities

BID:14336

Info

Greasemonkey Multiple Remote Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities

Bugtraq ID: 14336
Class: Design Error
CVE: CVE-2005-2455
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Jul 20 2005 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 12 2009 04:06PM
Credit: Mark Pilgrim <[email protected]> is credited with the discovery of this vulnerability.
Vulnerable: Greasemonkey Greasemonkey 0.3.3
Not Vulnerable: Greasemonkey Greasemonkey 0.3.5

Discussion

Greasemonkey Multiple Remote Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities

Greasemonkey is susceptible to multiple remote information disclosure vulnerabilities. These issues are due to a design error allowing insecure JavaScript functions to be executed by remote Web sites.

The specified issues exist in the 'GM_xmlhttpRequest()', 'GM_setValue()', and 'GM_scripts()' functions.

Other GM_* functions also likely to be affected, but the exact functions are not known at this time.

These vulnerabilities allow remote attackers to retrieve the contents of arbitrary files, retrieve directory listings from arbitrary locations, and retrieve the contents of various private Greasemonkey data structures. This aids them in further attacks.

Exploit / POC

Greasemonkey Multiple Remote Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities

Proof of concept exploit Web pages have been provided at the following URIs. As these pages are provided by a third-party, Symantec cannot vouch for their content.

http://diveintogreasemonkey.org/experiments/function-leak.html
http://diveintogreasemonkey.org/experiments/script-leak.html
http://diveintogreasemonkey.org/experiments/xmlhttprequest-leak.html
http://diveintogreasemonkey.org/experiments/localfile-leak.html

Solution / Fix

Greasemonkey Multiple Remote Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities

Solution:
The vendor has released an updated version of the package to address these issues:


Greasemonkey Greasemonkey 0.3.3

References

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