Access Restriction Bypass Affecting mozilla package, versions [,17.0.7][17.0.7,23.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.28% (69th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2378101
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed7 Aug 2013
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 7 Aug 2013

CVE-2013-1714  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 23.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. The Web Workers implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 23.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.8, Thunderbird before 17.0.8, Thunderbird ESR 17.x before 17.0.8, and SeaMonkey before 2.20 does not properly restrict XMLHttpRequest calls, which allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via unspecified vectors.

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