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Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2009-26
Title: Arbitrary domain cookie access by local file: resources
Impact: Moderate
Announced: June 11, 2009
Reporter: Gregory Fleischer
Products: Firefox, SeaMonkey
Fixed in: Firefox 3.0.11
SeaMonkey 1.1.17
Description
Security researcher Gregory Fleischer reported
that local resources loaded via the file:
protocol can
access any domain's cookies which have been saved on a user's machine.
Fleischer demonstrated that a local document's domain was being
calculated incorrectly from its URL. If a victim could be persuaded
to download a malicious file and then open that file in their browser,
the malicious file could then steal arbitrary cookies from the
victim's computer. Due to the interaction required for this attack,
the severity of the issue was determined to be moderate.