Second Life secondlife URI handler information disclosure
| secondlife-secondlife-info-disclosure (36651) |  Low Risk |
Description:
Second Life could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a design error that registers the "secondlife://" URI handler and allows the installation process to be invoked by command line arguments. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using the -autologin and -loginuri parameters in an iframe to obtain the victim's username, password hash and other sensitive information.
*CVSS:
| Base Score: | 2.6 |
| Access Vector: | Network |
| Access Complexity: | High |
| Authentication: | None |
| Confidentiality Impact: | Partial |
| Integrity Impact: | None |
| Availability Impact: | None |
| Temporal Score: | 2.1 |
| Exploitability: | Unproven |
| Remediation Level: | Unavailable |
| Report Confidence: | Uncorroborated |
Consequences:
Obtain Information
Remedy:
No remedy available as of July 9, 2011.
References:
- Full-Disclosure Mailing List, Sun Sep 16 2007 - 05:52:22 CDT: IE (Internet Explorer) pwns SecondLife.
- Gnucitizen Blog, published: September 16th, 2007: IE pwns SecondLife.
- Second Life Web site: Second Life: Your World. Your Imagination.
- CVE-2007-4961: The login_to_simulator method in Linden Lab Second Life, as used by the secondlife:// protocol handler and possibly other Second Life login mechanisms, sends an MD5 hash in cleartext in the passwd field, which allows remote attackers to login to an account by sniffing the network and then sending this hash to a Second Life authentication server.
- SA26845: Second Life URI Handler Registration Vulnerability
- VUPEN/ADV-2007-3188: Second Life secondlife: URI Handler Information Disclosure Vulnerability
Platforms Affected:
- Apple Mac OS X 10.3.9
- Linden Research Second Life 1.x
- Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4
- Microsoft Windows XP SP2
Reported:
Sep 16, 2007
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