Mozilla Firefox Certificate Spoofing

From: E.Kellinis (me_at_cipher.org.uk)
Date: 07/26/04

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    Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 19:44:04 -0700
    
    

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    Application: Mozilla Firefox
    Vendors: http://www.mozilla.com
    Version: 0.9.1 / 0.9.2
    Platforms: Windows
    Bug: Certificate Spoofing (Phishing)
    Risk: High
    Exploitation: Remote with browser
    Date: 25 July 2004
    Author: Emmanouel Kellinis
    e-mail: me@cipher(dot)org(dot)uk
    web: http://www.cipher.org.uk
    List : BugTraq(SecurityFocus)/ Full-Disclosure
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    Product
    =======
    A popular Web browser,good alternative of IE and
    "The web browser" for linux machines,
    used to view pages on the World Wide Web.

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    Bug
    ===

    Firefox has caching problem, as a result of that someone can
    spoof a certificate of any website and use it as his/her own.
    The problem is exploited using onunload inside < body> and
    redirection using Http-equiv Refresh metatag,document.write()
    and document.close()

    First you direct the redirection metatag to the website
    of which you want to spoof the certificate, then inside
    the < body> tag you add onulnoad script so you can control
    the output inside the webpage with the spoofed certificate.

    After that you say to firefox, as soon as you unload this page
    close the stream, aparently the stream you close is
    the redirection website, you do that with
    document.close().

    Now you can write anything you want , you do that
    using document.write(). After writing the content of you choice
    you close the stream again , usually firefox wont display your content,
    although if you check the source code you see it , so the last thing
    is to refresh the new page (do that using window.location.reload()),
    after that you have your domain name in the url field , your content
    in the browser and the magic yellow Lock on the bottom left corner,
    if you pass your mouse over it you will see displayed the name of
    the website you spoofed the certificate, if you double click on it you
    will check full information of the certificate without any warning !

    You dont need to have SSL in your website ! it will work with
    http.

    Additional using this bug malicious websites can bypass content
    filtering using SSL properties.

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    Proof Of Concept Code
    =====================

    < HTML>
    < HEAD>
    < TITLE>Spoofer< /TITLE>
    < META HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" CONTENT="0;URL=https://www.example.com">
    < /HEAD>
    < BODY
    onunload="
    document.close();
    document.writeln('< body onload=document.close();break;>
                < h3>It is Great to Use example's Cert!');

    document.close();
    window.location.reload();
    ">
    < /body>

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    *PK:http://www.cipher.org.uk/files/pgp/cipherorguk.public.key.txt
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