Access Restriction Bypass Affecting mozilla package, versions [,5.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
0.31% (71st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2378243
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed30 Jun 2011
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 30 Jun 2011

CVE-2011-2370  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 5.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. Mozilla Firefox before 5.0 does not properly enforce the whitelist for the xpinstall functionality, which allows remote attackers to trigger an installation dialog for a (1) add-on or (2) theme via unspecified vectors.

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