Information Exposure Affecting mozilla package, versions [,42.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.26% (65th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2378220
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed5 Nov 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 5 Nov 2015

CVE-2015-7190  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 42.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. The Search feature in Mozilla Firefox before 42.0 on Android through 4.4 supports search-engine URL registration through an intent and can access this URL in a privileged context in conjunction with the crash reporter, which allows attackers to read log files and visit file: URLs of HTML documents via a crafted application.

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