Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2011-2980
Untrusted search path vulnerability in the ThinkPadSensor::Startup function in Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.20, Thunderbird 3.x before 3.1.12, allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging write access in an unspecified directory to place a Trojan horse DLL that is loaded into the running Firefox process.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.2 (High). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.003 (20.2th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 20th percentile — 20.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox — versions 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2
- Mozilla Thunderbird — versions 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2
References
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)
- www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-30.html (Vendor Advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-08/msg00027.html (vendor-advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-08/msg00023.html (vendor-advisory)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14436 (signature, vdb-entry)
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi (Patch)