Firefox Browser Hack Uses 17yr Old Vulnerability

[V.T. Eric Layton 6,615]

17-Year-Old Weakness in Firefox Let HTML File Steal Other Files From Device

 

 

Meh... I'm not going to worry too much about this. Mozilla doesn't even seem concerned. We'll see...

[zlim 1,226]

For a successful execution of this attack, attackers are required to trick victims into downloading and opening a malicious HTML file on the Firefox web browser and click on a fake button to trigger the exploit.

Since I rarely download html files, my risk is very low. I wonder what the fake button looks like.

 

Rather than save web pages as html, I tend to save bookmarks of the web pages.