User Impersonation Affecting seamonkey package, versions [,2.24)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.6% (91st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SEAMONKEY-2379854
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed6 Feb 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 6 Feb 2014

CVE-2014-1487  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-346  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade seamonkey to version 2.24 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to User Impersonation. The Web workers implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 27.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.3, Thunderbird before 24.3, and SeaMonkey before 2.24 allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and obtain sensitive authentication information via vectors involving error messages.

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