Access Restriction Bypass Affecting mozilla package, versions [,1.5.0.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
28.35% (97th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2379464
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed2 Jun 2006
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 2 Jun 2006

CVE-2006-2784  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 1.5.0.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. The PLUGINSPAGE functionality in Mozilla Firefox before 1.5.0.4 allows remote user-assisted attackers to execute privileged code by tricking a user into installing missing plugins and selecting the "Manual Install" button, then using nested javascript: URLs. NOTE: the manual install button is used for downloading software from a remote web site, so this issue would not cross privilege boundaries if the user progresses to the point of installing malicious software from the attacker-controlled site.

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