Intrusion PreventionMozilla.Firefox.xdg-open.mailcap.File.Remote.Code.Execution
Description
This indicates an attack attempt against a remote code execution vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox.
The vulnerability is caused by improperly validating the MIME type of files before calling the 'xdg-open' utility. Attackers can exploit it to execute arbitrary code.
Affected Products
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.4
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.3
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.2
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1
Mozilla Firefox 3.0 Beta 5
Mozilla Firefox 3.0
Impact
System Compromise: Remote attackers can gain control of vulnerable systems.
Recommended Actions
Currently we are not aware of any vendor supplied patch for this issue.
Telemetry
Coverage
| IPS (Regular DB) | |
| IPS (Extended DB) |
| ID | 26792 |
| Created | May 13, 2011 |
| Updated | Feb 24, 2022 |
| Risk |
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| CVE ID | CVE-2009-0068 |
| Exploit Prediction Score | 2.39% |
| Default Action | drop |
| Active | |
| Affected OS | Windows, Linux |
| Affected App | Mozilla |