bugtraq - Firefox 1.5.0.3 Flaw - Page can obtain path to Mozilla installation or profile by examining JavaScript exceptions

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Date: 21 May 2006 13:20:48 -0000
From: milw0rm@...il.com
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Firefox 1.5.0.3 Flaw - Page can obtain path to Mozilla
 installation or profile by examining JavaScript exceptions


if the exception raises in some extension in the user profile and the page can catch path to the user profile and so a remote attacker will know the user login

PoC: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=164547