Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox

CVE-2011-2370

Mozilla Firefox before 5.0 does not properly enforce the whitelist for the xpinstall functionality, which allows remote attackers to trigger an installation dialog for a (1) add-on or (2) theme via unspecified vectors.

EPSS: 0.010 (58.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox — versions 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-264

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (signature, x_refsource_OVAL, vdb-entry)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)