Access Restriction Bypass Affecting mozilla package, versions [,17.0.9][17.0.9,24.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.11% (45th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2378324
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed18 Sept 2013
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 18 Sep 2013

CVE-2013-1726  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 24.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. Mozilla Updater in Mozilla Firefox before 24.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.9, Thunderbird before 24.0, Thunderbird ESR 17.x before 17.0.9, and SeaMonkey before 2.21 does not ensure exclusive access to a MAR file, which allows local users to gain privileges by creating a Trojan horse file after MAR signature verification but before MAR use.

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