Access Restriction Bypass Affecting mozilla package, versions [,7.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
0.99% (84th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2377289
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed29 Sept 2011
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 29 Sep 2011

CVE-2011-3001  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 7.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 6, Thunderbird before 7.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.4 do not prevent manual add-on installation in response to the holding of the Enter key, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via a crafted web site that triggers an unspecified internal error.

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