Information Exposure Affecting mozilla package, versions [,32.0.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.73% (81st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2378222
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed15 Oct 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 15 Oct 2014

CVE-2014-1583  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 32.0.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. The Alarm API in Mozilla Firefox before 33.0 and Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.2 does not properly restrict toJSON calls, which allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy via crafted API calls that access sensitive information within the JSON data of an alarm.

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