Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.6 and SeaMonkey do not block...
Moderate severity
Unreviewed
Published
May 2, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
•
Updated Jan 31, 2023
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Feb 4, 2009
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
May 2, 2022
Last updated
Jan 31, 2023
Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.6 and SeaMonkey do not block links to the (1) about:plugins and (2) about:config URIs from .desktop files, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and execute arbitrary code with chrome privileges via vectors involving the URL field in a Desktop Entry section of a .desktop file, related to representation of about: URIs as jar:file:// URIs. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2008-4582.
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