Access Restriction Bypass Affecting mozilla package, versions [,31.1.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
0.14% (51st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2377635
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed3 Sept 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 3 Sep 2014

CVE-2014-1566  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 31.1.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. Mozilla Firefox before 31.1 on Android does not properly restrict copying of local files onto the SD card during processing of file: URLs, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information from the Firefox profile directory via a crafted application. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-1515.

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