Directory Traversal Affecting mozilla package, versions [,2.0.0.12)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
14.38% (96th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2378725
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed8 Feb 2008
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 8 Feb 2008

CVE-2008-0418  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 2.0.0.12 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Directory Traversal. Directory traversal vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.12, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.12, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.8, when using "flat" addons, allows remote attackers to read arbitrary Javascript, image, and stylesheet files via the chrome: URI scheme, as demonstrated by stealing session information from sessionstore.js.

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