IE and Firefox Share a Vulnerability

hcmtnbiker writes with news of a logic flaw shared by IE 7 and Firefox 2.0. IE 5.01, IE 6, and Firefox 1.5.0.9 are also affected. The flaw was discovered by Michal Zalewski, and is easily demonstrated on IE7 and Firefox. The vulnerability is not platform-specific, but these demonstrations are — they work only on Windows systems. (Microsoft says that IE7 on Vista is not vulnerable.) From the vulnerability description: "In all modern browsers, form fields (used to upload user-specified files to a remote server) enjoy some added protection meant to prevent scripts from arbitrarily choosing local files to be sent, and automatically submitting the form without user knowledge. For example, '.value' parameter cannot be set or changed, and any changes to .type reset the contents of the field... [in this attack] the keyboard input in unrelated locations can be selectively geared toward input fields by the attacker."

Comments

Oh really...

[Brad_sk]

Firefox has a vulnerability... thats impossible!!...Lets blame it on windows as usual.

Re:Awww, that's so cute

[jtcm]

From the DropMyRights link:

Create a shortcut and enter DropMyRights.exe as the target executable, followed by the path to the application you want to execute in lower privilege. For example:

C:\warez\dropmyrights.exe "c:\program files\internet explorer\iexplore.exe"

For shame! What's that directory doing on a computer at Microsoft Security Engineering?