Web content bypass of COW and SOW security wrappers — Mozilla

2013-02-1900:00:00

Mozilla Foundation

www.mozilla.org

CVSS2

9.3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

EPSS

0.01

Percentile

83.3%

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Mozilla developer Bobby Holley discovered that it was possible to bypass some protections in Chrome Object Wrappers (COW) and System Only Wrappers (SOW), making their prototypes mutable by web content. This could be used leak information from chrome objects and possibly allow for arbitrary code execution.

Affected configurations

Vulners

Node

mozillafirefoxRange<19

mozillafirefox_esrRange<17.0.3

mozillaseamonkeyRange<2.16

mozillathunderbirdRange<17.0.3

mozillathunderbird_esrRange<17.0.3

VendorProductVersionCPE
mozillafirefox*cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozillafirefox_esr*cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozillaseamonkey*cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozillathunderbird*cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozillathunderbird_esr*cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird_esr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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