CVE-2005-2455 Information

Description

Greasemonkey before 0.3.5 allows remote web servers to (1) read arbitrary files via a GET request to a file:// URL in the GM_xmlhttpRequest API function (2) list installed scripts using GM_scripts or obtain sensitive information via (3) GM_setValue and GM_getValue.

Reference

http://greaseblog.blogspot.com/2005/07/mandatory-greasemonkey-update.html http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/changes/0.3.5.html http://mozdev.org/pipermail/greasemonkey/2005-July/004000.html http://mozdev.org/pipermail/greasemonkey/2005-July/004022.html http://secunia.com/advisories/16128 http://securitytracker.com/id?1014529 http://www.osvdb.org/18154 http://www.securiteam.com/securitynews/5CP0P20GBK.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14336 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1147 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/21453