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Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2006-41

Title: File stealing by changing input type (variant)
Impact: High
Date: June 1, 2006
Reporter: Chuck McAuley
Products: Firefox, SeaMonkey

Fixed in: Firefox 1.5.0.4
  SeaMonkey 1.0.2

Description

Chuck McAuley provided Proof-of-Concept code that demonstrates that MFSA 2006-23 was not fixed for all cases. In Firefox 1.5.0.2 it is still possible to pre-fill a text input control with the path to a file at a known location and then change the type of the input control to a file upload control without having the value reset as intended.

Workaround

Disable JavaScript until you have upgraded to a fixed version.

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