An attacker can use this vulnerability to collect session information, including session cookies and session history. Firefox is not vulnerable by default. Only users that have installed "flat" packed add-ons are at risk. Discussion about "flat" packaged add-ons is here. A partial list of "flat" packed add-ons is available here. If you are an author of any of these add-ons, please release an update to your add-on that uses .jar packaging.
This bug is tracking the additional information: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=413451
Based on this new information Mozilla has changed the security severity rating to high. A fix is included in Firefox 2.0.0.12 which be available shortly.
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