Privilege Escalation Affecting mozilla package, versions [24.0,24.4)(24.4,28.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
0.09% (39th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2377688
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed19 Mar 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 19 Mar 2014

CVE-2014-1496  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-269  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 24.4, 28.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Privilege Escalation. Mozilla Firefox before 28.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.4, Thunderbird before 24.4, and SeaMonkey before 2.25 might allow local users to gain privileges by modifying the extracted Mar contents during an update.

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