Access Restriction Bypass Affecting mozilla package, versions [,67.0.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.31% (70th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2378869
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed23 Jul 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 Jul 2019

CVE-2019-11702  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-862  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 67.0.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. A hyperlink using protocols associated with Internet Explorer, such as IE.HTTP:, can be used to open local files at a known location with Internet Explorer if a user approves execution when prompted. Note: this issue only occurs on Windows. Other operating systems are unaffected.. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 67.0.2.

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