Access Restriction Bypass Affecting mozilla package, versions [,14.0.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
5.28% (93rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2378023
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed29 Aug 2012
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 29 Aug 2012

CVE-2012-3973  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 14.0.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. The debugger in the developer-tools subsystem in Mozilla Firefox before 15.0, when remote debugging is disabled, does not properly restrict access to the remote-debugging service, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by leveraging the presence of the HTTPMonitor extension and connecting to that service through the HTTPMonitor port.

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