Access Restriction Bypass Affecting mozilla package, versions [,58)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.08% (38th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2378394
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed11 Jun 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 11 Jun 2018

CVE-2018-5105  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 58 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. WebExtensions can bypass user prompts to first save and then open an arbitrarily downloaded file. This can result in an executable file running with local user privileges without explicit user consent. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 58.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1