CVE-2011-2980 Affecting mozilla package, versions [,3.6.20)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
1.79% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2378794
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed18 Aug 2011
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 18 Aug 2011

CVE-2011-2980  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 3.6.20 or higher.

Overview

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the ThinkPadSensor::Startup function in Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.20, Thunderbird 3.x before 3.1.12, allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging write access in an unspecified directory to place a Trojan horse DLL that is loaded into the running Firefox process.

References

CVSS Scores

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