Access Restriction Bypass Affecting seamonkey package, versions [,1.1.12)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
52.48% (98th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SEAMONKEY-2379838
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed24 Sept 2008
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 24 Sep 2008

CVE-2008-4060  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade seamonkey to version 1.1.12 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.17 and 3.x before 3.0.2, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.17, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.12 allow remote attackers to create documents that lack script-handling objects, and execute arbitrary code with chrome privileges, via vectors related to (1) the document.loadBindingDocument function and (2) XSLT.

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