Access Restriction Bypass Affecting thunderbird-debuginfo package, versions <0:17.0.8-5.el5_9


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.68% (82nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-THUNDERBIRDDEBUGINFO-9836876
  • published28 Apr 2025
  • disclosed7 Aug 2013

Introduced: 7 Aug 2013

CVE-2013-1714  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:10 thunderbird-debuginfo to version 0:17.0.8-5.el5_9 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2013:1142.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream thunderbird-debuginfo package and not the thunderbird-debuginfo package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

The Web Workers implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 23.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.8, Thunderbird before 17.0.8, Thunderbird ESR 17.x before 17.0.8, and SeaMonkey before 2.20 does not properly restrict XMLHttpRequest calls, which allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via unspecified vectors.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1