Information Exposure Affecting mozilla package, versions [,59.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.23% (62nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2378313
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed11 Jun 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 11 Jun 2018

CVE-2018-5132  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 59.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. The Find API for WebExtensions can search some privileged pages, such as "about:debugging", if these pages are open in a tab. This could allow a malicious WebExtension to search for otherwise protected data if a user has it open. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 59.

CVSS Scores

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