Access Restriction Bypass Affecting mozilla package, versions [,4.0.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.4% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2378414
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed9 Aug 2011
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 9 Aug 2011

CVE-2008-7293  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 4.0.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. Mozilla Firefox before 4 cannot properly restrict modifications to cookies established in HTTPS sessions, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to overwrite or delete arbitrary cookies via a Set-Cookie header in an HTTP response, related to lack of the HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) includeSubDomains feature, aka a "cookie forcing" issue.

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