Privacy leak in JavaScript Workers — Mozilla

2013-02-1900:00:00

Mozilla Foundation

www.mozilla.org

CVSS2

4.3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

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

EPSS

0.004

Percentile

74.7%

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Mozilla security researcher Frederik Braun discovered that since Firefox 15 the file system location of the active browser profile was available to JavaScript workers. While not dangerous by itself, this could potentially be combined with other vulnerabilities to target the profile in an attack.

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::::::::