Improper Authentication Affecting mozilla package, versions [10.0,10.0.12)[17.0,17.0.2)(17.0.2,18.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.32% (72nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2378881
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed13 Jan 2013
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Jan 2013

CVE-2013-0759  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-287  (opens in a new tab)
First added by Snyk

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 10.0.12, 17.0.2, 18.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Authentication. Mozilla Firefox before 18.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.12 and 17.x before 17.0.2, Thunderbird before 17.0.2, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.12 and 17.x before 17.0.2, and SeaMonkey before 2.15 allow remote attackers to spoof the address bar via vectors involving authentication information in the userinfo field of a URL, in conjunction with a 204 (aka No Content) HTTP status code.

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