Arbitrary Code Injection Affecting mozilla package, versions [10.0,10.0.10)(10.0.10,16.0.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.35% (72nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2378665
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed29 Oct 2012
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 29 Oct 2012

CVE-2012-4196  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-74  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 10.0.10, 16.0.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Injection. Mozilla Firefox before 16.0.2, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.10, Thunderbird before 16.0.2, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.10, and SeaMonkey before 2.13.2 allow remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and read the Location object via a prototype property-injection attack that defeats certain protection mechanisms for this object.

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