Information Exposure Affecting mozilla package, versions [,2.0.0.18)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.47% (76th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2379034
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed13 Aug 2009
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Aug 2009

CVE-2008-6961  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 2.0.0.18 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure mailnews in Mozilla Thunderbird before 2.0.0.18 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.13, when JavaScript is enabled in mail, allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information about the recipient, or comments in forwarded mail, via script that reads the (1) .documentURI or (2) .textContent DOM properties.

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