Privilege escalation via XPCnativeWrapper pollution — Mozilla

2008-09-2300:00:00

Mozilla Foundation

www.mozilla.org

CVSS2

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

EPSS

0.639

Percentile

97.9%

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Mozilla security researcher moz_bug_r_a4 reported a series of vulnerabilities by which page content can pollute XPCNativeWrappers and have arbitrary code run with chrome privileges. One variant reported by moz_bug_r_a4 only affected Firefox 2.

Affected configurations

Vulners

Node

mozillafirefoxRange<2.0.0.17

mozillafirefoxRange<3.0.2

mozillaseamonkeyRange<1.1.12

mozillathunderbirdRange<2.0.0.17

VendorProductVersionCPE
mozillafirefox*cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozillaseamonkey*cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozillathunderbird*cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE
mozilla	firefox	*	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox::::::::
mozilla	seamonkey	*	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey::::::::
mozilla	thunderbird	*	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird::::::::