Access Restriction Bypass Affecting mozilla package, versions [,50.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.3% (70th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2377388
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed11 Jun 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 11 Jun 2018

CVE-2016-9075  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 50.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. An issue where WebExtensions can use the mozAddonManager API to elevate privilege due to privileged pages being allowed in the permissions list. This allows a malicious extension to then install additional extensions without explicit user permission. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 50.

CVSS Scores

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