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HistoryOct 09, 2012 - 12:00 a.m.

Reader Mode pages have chrome privileges — Mozilla

2012-10-0900:00:00
Mozilla Foundation
www.mozilla.org
11

4 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

NONE

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

0.005 Low

EPSS

Percentile

75.2%

Security researcher Warren He reported that when a page is transitioned into Reader Mode in Firefox for Android, the resulting page has chrome privileges and its content is not thoroughly sanitized. A successful attack requires user enabling of reader mode for a malicious page, which could then perform an attack similar to cross-site scripting (XSS) to gain the privileges allowed to Firefox on an Android device. This has been fixed by changing the Reader Mode page into an unprivileged page.

Affected configurations

Vulners
Node
mozillafirefoxRange<16
CPENameOperatorVersion
firefoxlt16

4 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

NONE

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

0.005 Low

EPSS

Percentile

75.2%