Access Restriction Bypass Affecting firefox package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.28% (70th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-FIREFOX-1327736
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed20 Jul 2010

Introduced: 20 Jul 2010

CVE-2010-2751  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:6 firefox.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream firefox package and not the firefox package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:6 relevant fixed versions and status.

The nsDocShell::OnRedirectStateChange function in docshell/base/nsDocShell.cpp in Mozilla Firefox 3.5.x before 3.5.11 and 3.6.x before 3.6.7, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.6, allows remote attackers to spoof the SSL security status of a document via vectors involving multiple requests, a redirect, and the history.back and history.forward JavaScript functions.

CVSS Scores

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