full-disclosure - Re: New flaw found in Firefox 2.0.0.4: Firefox file input focus vulnerabilities

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Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 23:03:29 +0200 (CEST)
From: Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf@...ne.ids.pl>
To: carl hardwick <hardwick.carl@...il.com>
Cc: Full-Disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: New flaw found in Firefox 2.0.0.4: Firefox
 file input focus vulnerabilities

On Sat, 30 Jun 2007, carl hardwick wrote:

> The vulnerability allows the attacker to silently redirect focus of
> selected key press events to an otherwise protected file upload form
> field. This is possible because of how onKeyDown event is handled,
> allowing the focus to be moved between the two. This enables the
> attacker to read arbitrary files on victim's system.

Hey, that's a copy&paste from my post! ;-)

/mz

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