CVE-2002-1204

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Nov 21, 2002
Updated: Aug 8, 2024
Reserved: Oct 14, 2002

Description

Netscape Communicator 4.x allows attackers to use a link to steal a user's preferences, including potentially sensitive information such as URL history, e-mail address, and possibly the e-mail password, by redefining the user_pref() function and accessing the prefs.js file, which is stored in a directory with a predictable name.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

20021119 iDEFENSE Security Advisory 11.19.02c: Netscape Predictable Directory Structure Allows Theft of Preferences Filemailing-list
http://www.idefense.com/advisory/11.19.02c.txt
netscape-preferences-file(10655)vdb-entry
6215vdb-entry

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