Improper Access Control Affecting mozilla package, versions [,58)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.24% (62nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2378852
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed11 Jun 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 11 Jun 2018

CVE-2018-5113  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 58 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Access Control. The "browser.identity.launchWebAuthFlow" function of WebExtensions is only allowed to load content over "https:" but this requirement was not properly enforced. This can potentially allow privileged pages to be loaded by the extension. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 58.

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