Access Restriction Bypass Affecting seamonkey package, versions [,2.12)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.64% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SEAMONKEY-2380006
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed29 Aug 2012
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 29 Aug 2012

CVE-2012-3978  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade seamonkey to version 2.12 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. The nsLocation::CheckURL function in Mozilla Firefox before 15.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.7, Thunderbird before 15.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.7, and SeaMonkey before 2.12 does not properly follow the security model of the location object, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended content-loading restrictions or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors involving chrome code.

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