[Secure-testing-team] Bug#659379: uzbl: world-readable (and writable!) cookie jar

Jakub Wilk jwilk at debian.org
Fri Feb 10 16:09:13 UTC 2012


Package: uzbl
Version: 0.0.0~git.20100403-3
Severity: grave
Tags: security
Justification: user security hole

$ ls -ld ~/.local/{,share/{,uzbl/{,cookies.txt}}}
drwxr-xr-x 3 user users 4096 Feb  9 23:29 /home/user/.local/
drwxr-xr-x 4 user users 4096 Feb  9 23:29 /home/user/.local/share/
drwxr-xr-x 2 user users 4096 Feb  9 23:29 /home/user/.local/share/uzbl/
-rw-rw-rw- 1 user users  732 Feb  9 23:29 /home/user/.local/share/uzbl/cookies.txt

This allows local users to steal cookies (and tamper with them).

-- 
Jakub Wilk





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