Access Restriction Bypass Affecting mozilla package, versions [,2.0.0.15)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
79.43% (99th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2377751
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed7 Jul 2008
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 7 Jul 2008

CVE-2008-2802  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 2.0.0.15 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.15, Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 and earlier, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.10 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an XUL document that includes a script from a chrome: URI that points to a fastload file, related to this file's "privilege level."

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