Other nomination

Read Firefox Settings (PoC)

Sergey Vzloman's proof of concept redefines pref() then loads resource://gre/greprefs/security-prefs.js and all.js as scripts, dumping Firefox preference values into JavaScript for browser recon. RSnake added it to Mr. T. The dropped comment thread establishes it reads only shipped defaults, not user settings, and RSnake withdrew it.

In the archive

• Nominated for the 2007 Top 10 Web Hacking Techniques

Related sources

• Research demonstration and tool

Tags

• info-leak
• javascript
• browser-fingerprinting
• detection
• dom
• owasp-a09-2021

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