Mozilla Firefox URI Splitting Security Bypass Vulnerability

Mozilla Firefox URI Splitting Security Bypass Vulnerability

Mozilla Firefox is prone to a security-bypass vulnerability because of a design error.

Exploiting this issue could allow an attacker to bypass certain security restrictions and launch restricted URIs. Specifically, the attacker could use external applications to launch 'chrome:' URIs or to pass certain URIs to Firefox that would normally be handled by a vector application.

The issue affects Firefox 3.0 and versions prior to 2.0.0.16.