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From: badpenguin79 at hotmail.com (Giovanni Delvecchio)
Subject: Disclosure of local file content in Mozilla Firefox and
 Opera

Which you wrote is correct, indeed i have specified in my message:

>Anyway it cannot be exploited "directly" by a remote site, but only if the 
>page is opened from a local path ( file://localpath/code.htm),  since the  
>iframe belongs to a local domain.
>
>Note: with Internet Explorer these PoCs doesn't work even in local.

My target was explain how a remote user could take advantage by this 
feature.
I illustrated also a possible method of remote exploitation.

But at this point i have a question: if it is a normal behavior, why in Ms 
Internet Explorer i cannot reproduce this problem even in local zone?
Maybe different implementation? IMHO it's strange.


Regards,
Giovanni Delvecchio


>
>This is not a vulnerability, it is expected behavior.
>
>Mozilla shares the same zone design as IE which means that a file from the 
>local file zone can read any other file from the local file zone. You 
>cannot use this approach to read a local file from another zone such as the 
>Internet zone. From the Internet zone, you can also only read the content 
>of files from the same zone, same protocol and same domain.
>
>I agree that Mozilla has implemented quite a lot of proprietary IE 
>extensions which it should have not done, however reading the innerHTML of 
>an element through document.all does not circumvent the traditional zone 
>security checks already in place.
>
>
>
>Regards
>
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