Information Exposure Affecting mozilla package, versions [,68.8.0)(68.8.0,76.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (19th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2378559
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed26 May 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 26 May 2020

CVE-2020-12392  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 68.8.0, 76.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. The 'Copy as cURL' feature of Devtools' network tab did not properly escape the HTTP POST data of a request, which can be controlled by the website. If a user used the 'Copy as cURL' feature and pasted the command into a terminal, it could have resulted in the disclosure of local files. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 68.8, Firefox < 76, and Thunderbird < 68.8.0.

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