Access Restriction Bypass Affecting mozilla package, versions [,3.0.11)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
6.21% (94th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2377372
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed12 Jun 2009
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 Jun 2009

CVE-2009-1839  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 3.0.11 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. Mozilla Firefox 3 before 3.0.11 associates an incorrect principal with a file: URL loaded through the location bar, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions and read files via a crafted HTML document, aka a "file-URL-to-file-URL scripting" attack.

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