Access Restriction Bypass Affecting mozilla package, versions [,51.0.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.49% (76th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2377536
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed11 Jun 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 11 Jun 2018

CVE-2017-5397  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 51.0.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. The cache directory on the local file system is set to be world writable. Firefox defaults to extracting libraries from this cache. This allows for the possibility of an installed malicious application or tools with write access to the file system to replace files used by Firefox with their own versions. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 51.0.3.

CVSS Scores

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