Access Restriction Bypass Affecting mozilla package, versions [1.0,3.1.19][3.1.19,3.6.28)(4.0,5.0)(5.0,10.0.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.93% (89th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2379187
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed14 Mar 2012
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 14 Mar 2012

CVE-2012-0458  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 3.6.28, 5.0, 10.0.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.28 and 4.x through 10.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.3, Thunderbird before 3.1.20 and 5.0 through 10.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.3, and SeaMonkey before 2.8 do not properly restrict setting the home page through the dragging of a URL to the home button, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript code with chrome privileges via a javascript: URL that is later interpreted in the about:sessionrestore context.

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CVSS Scores

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