Access Restriction Bypass Affecting mozilla package, versions [,35.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.94% (84th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2378268
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed14 Jan 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 14 Jan 2015

CVE-2014-8643  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 35.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. Mozilla Firefox before 35.0 on Windows allows remote attackers to bypass the Gecko Media Plugin (GMP) sandbox protection mechanism by leveraging access to the GMP process, as demonstrated by the OpenH264 plugin's process.

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