Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2011-3001
Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 6, Thunderbird before 7.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.4 do not prevent manual add-on installation in response to the holding of the Enter key, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via a crafted web site that triggers an unspecified internal error.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.015 (72.8th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 73rd percentile — 72.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.015 · newest: 0.015 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox — versions 4.0, 4.0.1, 5.0
- Mozilla Seamonkey — versions 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2
- Mozilla Thunderbird — versions 0.1, 0.2, 0.3
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/46315 (third-party-advisory)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14442 (signature, vdb-entry)
- www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-40.html (Vendor Advisory)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-11/msg00020.html (vendor-advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-10/msg00002.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)