Access Restriction Bypass Affecting seamonkey package, versions [,2.7.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SEAMONKEY-2380222
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed1 Feb 2012
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 1 Feb 2012

CVE-2012-0450  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade seamonkey to version 2.7.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 9.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.7 on Linux and Mac OS X set weak permissions for Firefox Recovery Key.html, which might allow local users to read a Firefox Sync key via standard filesystem operations.

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