Access Restriction Bypass Affecting mozilla package, versions [2.0,3.0.3]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
7.52% (95th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2378160
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed15 Oct 2008
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 15 Oct 2008

CVE-2008-4582  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for mozilla.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1 through 3.0.3, Firefox 2.x before 2.0.0.18, and SeaMonkey 1.x before 1.1.13, when running on Windows, do not properly identify the context of Windows .url shortcut files, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and obtain sensitive information via an HTML document that is directly accessible through a filesystem, as demonstrated by documents in (1) local folders, (2) Windows share folders, and (3) RAR archives, and as demonstrated by IFRAMEs referencing shortcuts that point to (a) about:cache?device=memory and (b) about:cache?device=disk, a variant of CVE-2008-2810.

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