{"id":155,"date":"2009-07-28T15:40:43","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T22:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/security\/?p=155"},"modified":"2009-07-28T15:40:43","modified_gmt":"2009-07-28T22:40:43","slug":"url-bar-spoofing-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/security\/2009\/07\/28\/url-bar-spoofing-vulnerability\/","title":{"rendered":"URL bar spoofing vulnerability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Issue<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The URL in the address bar can be spoofed when a new window or tab is opened by a malicious web page.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Impact to users<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If a user visits a page hosting this malicious code, a new window or tab can be opened with a faked URL.\u00a0 There is no way of determining if the URL is authentic.\u00a0 This could result in the user disclosing confidential information to the malicious site, known as a phishing attack.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Status<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This vulnerability is known to affect all current versions of Firefox.\u00a0 Mozilla is actively working on <a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=451898\" target=\"_blank\">fixing this vulnerability<\/a>.\u00a0 Users can mitigate this vulnerability by only sharing confidential information with websites that were opened from a bookmark, a trusted source, or by manually opening a new tab or window and entering a URL.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Credit<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This issue was originally reported by Juan Pablo Lopez Yacubian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Issue The URL in the address bar can be spoofed when a new window or tab is opened by a malicious web page. 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