Mozilla Forefox jar: URL crossite scripting updated since 12.11.2007
Published:		27.11.2007
Source:		BUGTRAQ
SecurityVulns ID:		8333
Type:		remote
Level:		6/10
Description:		It's possible to fire crossite scripting attack via jar: protocol by uploading JAR, DOC, ZIP, etc files.

Affected:		MOZILLA : Firefox 2.0
		MOZILLA : SeaMonkey 1.1
		XULRUNNER : xulrunner 1.8
CVE:		CVE-2007-5947 (The jar protocol handler in Mozilla Firefox retrieves the inner URL regardless of its MIME type, and considers HTML documents within a jar archive to have the same origin as the inner URL, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a jar: URI.)

Original document		MOZILLA, Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2007-37 (27.11.2007)
		PDP, Web Mayhem: Firefox’s JAR: Protocol issues (12.11.2007)

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