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Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2009-44
Title: Location bar and SSL indicator spoofing via window.open() on invalid URL
Impact: Moderate
Announced: August 3, 2009
Reporter: Juan Pablo Lopez Yacubian
Products: Firefox
Fixed in: Firefox 3.5.2
Firefox 3.0.13
Description
Security researcher Juan Pablo Lopez Yacubian
reported that an attacker could call window.open()
on an
invalid URL which looks similar to a legitimate URL and then
use document.write()
to place content within the new
document, appearing to have come from the spoofed location.
Additionally, if the spoofed document was created by a document with a
valid SSL certificate, the SSL indicators would be carried over into
the spoofed document. An attacker could use these issues to display
misleading location and SSL information for a malicious web page.