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.
EPSS: 0.003 (21.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox — versions 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2
- Mozilla Thunderbird — versions 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_MANDRIVA)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)
- cve@mitre.org (signature, x_refsource_OVAL, vdb-entry)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch)