Access Restriction Bypass Affecting mozilla package, versions [,3.0.6)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
0.81% (82nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2379447
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed4 Feb 2009
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 4 Feb 2009

CVE-2009-0355  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 3.0.6 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass components/sessionstore/src/nsSessionStore.js in Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.6 does not block changes of INPUT elements to type="file" during tab restoration, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to read arbitrary files on a client machine via a crafted INPUT element.

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