CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
EPSS
Percentile
88.6%
The Firefox and Thunderbird auto-update mechanism protects itself against DNS spoofing using SSL; only a site presenting a valid certificate for aus2.mozilla.org will be trusted as a source of update information. Jon Oberheide points out, however, that many users accept unverifiable self-signed certificates without much thought on “low value” sites, and this could be used as the basis of an attack on the update system.
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
mozilla | firefox | * | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
mozilla | thunderbird | * | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |