Improper Access Control Affecting seamonkey package, versions [,2.31)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.24% (65th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SEAMONKEY-2380129
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed11 Dec 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 11 Dec 2014

CVE-2014-8631  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade seamonkey to version 2.31 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Access Control. The Chrome Object Wrapper (COW) implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 34.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.31 supports native-interface passing, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended DOM object restrictions via a call to an unspecified method.

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