Security Features Affecting mozilla package, versions [,45.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.38% (73rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2378484
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed13 Mar 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Mar 2016

CVE-2016-1965  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-254  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 45.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Security Features. Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.7 mishandle a navigation sequence that returns to the original page, which allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar via vectors involving the history.back method and the location.protocol property.

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