Access Restriction Bypass Affecting mozilla package, versions [,3.0.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
0.59% (79th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2378767
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed17 Dec 2008
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 17 Dec 2008

CVE-2008-5505  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 3.0.5 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.5 allows remote attackers to bypass intended privacy restrictions by using the persist attribute in an XUL element to create and access data entities that are similar to cookies.

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