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Local privilege escalation through Mozilla Maintenance Service — Mozilla
Security researcher Seb Patane reported an issue with the Mozilla Maintenance Service on Windows. This issue allows unprivileged users to local privilege escalation through the system privileges used by the service when interacting with local malicious software. This allows the user to bypass...
Bypass of SOW protections allows cloning of protected nodes — Mozilla
Security researcher Cody Crews reported a mechanism to use the cloneNode method to bypass System Only Wrappers SOW and clone a protected node. This allows violation of the browser's same origin policy and could also lead to privilege escalation and the execution of arbitrary code...
top object and location property accessible by plugins — Mozilla
Security researcher Mariusz Mlynski reported that the location property can be accessed by binary plugins through top.location and top can be shadowed by Object.defineProperty as well. This can allow for possible cross-site scripting XSS attacks through plugins...
Clickjacking of certificate warning page — Mozilla
Security Researcher Matt McCutchen reported that a clickjacking attack using the certificate warning page. A man-in-the-middle MITM attacker can use an iframe to display its own certificate error warning page about:certerror with the "Add Exception" button of a real warning page from a malicious...
Content Security Policy inline-script bypass — Mozilla
Security researcher Adam Barth found that inline event handlers, such as onclick, were no longer blocked by Content Security Policy's CSP inline-script blocking feature. Web applications relying on this feature of CSP to protect against cross-site scripting XSS were not fully protected...
XSS with Drag and Drop and Javascript: URL — Mozilla
Firefox prevents the dropping of javascript: links onto a frame to prevent malicious sites from tricking users into performing a cross-site scripting XSS attacks on themselves. Security researcher Soroush Dalili reported a way to bypass this protection...
Uninitialized memory appended when encoding icon images may cause information disclosure — Mozilla
Mozilla developer Tim Abraldes reported that when encoding images as image/vnd.microsoft.icon the resulting data was always a fixed size, with uninitialized memory appended as padding beyond the size of the actual image. This is the result of mImageBufferSize in the encoder being initialized with...
Key detection without JavaScript via SVG animation — Mozilla
Security researcher Mario Heiderich reported it was possible to use SVG animation accessKey events to detect key strokes even when JavaScript was disabled. Since web pages can normally detect key events through script and most users have scripting enabled this does not present a risk for most...
Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:1.9.2.11/ 1.9.1.14) — Mozilla
Mozilla developers identified and fixed several memory safety bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances, and we presume that with enough effort at least some of these could be...
Heap buffer overflow in nsGenericDOMDataNode::SetTextInternal — Mozilla
Security researcher Nils of MWR InfoSecurity reported that the routine for setting the text value for certain types of DOM nodes contained an integer overflow vulnerability. When a very long string was passed to this routine, the integer value used in creating a new memory buffer to hold the stri...
Remote code execution with use-after-free in nsTreeSelection — Mozilla
Security researcher regenrecht reported via TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative that a select event handler for XUL tree items could be called after the tree item was deleted. This results in the execution of previously freed memory which an attacker could use to crash a victim's browser and run...
Mishandling of locally-saved plain text files — Mozilla
Mozilla contributor oo.rio.oo demonstrated that once a file with Content-Disposition: attachment and improper Content-Type: plain/text is saved locally, the browser would no longer open local files with .txt extensions for viewing, but would rather prompt the user to save the file...
Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 131 — Mozilla
A user who enables full-screen mode on a specially crafted web page could potentially be prevented from exiting full screen mode. This may allow spoofing of other sites as the address bar is no longer visible.This bug only affects Firefox Focus for Android. Other versions of Firefox are unaffecte...
Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 102.4 — Mozilla
A same-origin policy violation could have allowed the theft of cross-origin URL entries, leaking the result of a redirect, via performance.getEntries. Certain types of allocations were missing annotations that, if the Garbage Collector was in a specific state, could have lead to memory corruption...
Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 91.13 — Mozilla
An attacker could have abused XSLT error handling to associate attacker-controlled content with another origin which was displayed in the address bar. This could have been used to fool the user into submitting data intended for the spoofed origin. A cross-origin iframe referencing an XSLT documen...
Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Thunderbird 68.9.0 — Mozilla
NSS has shown timing differences when performing DSA signatures, which was exploitable and could eventually leak private keys. When browsing a malicious page, a race condition in our SharedWorkerService could occur and lead to a potentially exploitable crash. Mozilla developer Iain Ireland...
Security vulnerabilities fixed in - Thunderbird 68.1 — Mozilla
Encrypted S/MIME parts in a crafted multipart/alternative message can leak plaintext when included in a a HTML reply/forward. A use-after-free vulnerability can occur while manipulating video elements if the body is freed while still in use. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. Some...
Security vulnerabilities fixed in Thunderbird 60.6 — Mozilla
A use-after-free vulnerability can occur when a raw pointer to a DOM element on a page is obtained using JavaScript and the element is then removed while still in use. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. The type inference system allows the compilation of functions that can cause typ...
Spoofing attack through text injection into internal error pages — Mozilla
Security researcher musicDespiteEverything reported that some of the special about: URLs used by Firefox to display system information or error messages can incorporate text passed as parameters. These could be used in spoofing attacks...
Use-after-free when applying SVG effects — Mozilla
Security researcher Nils used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover a use-after-free vulnerability when applying effects to SVG elements. This results in a potentially exploitable crash...
Disclosure of user actions through JavaScript with motion and orientation sensors — Mozilla
Security researcher Maryam Mehrnezhad of Newcastle University, UK reported an issue discovered by their research team, which also includes Ehsan Toreini, Siamak F. Shahandashti, and Feng Hao. They found vulnerabilities in Firefox for Android using orientation data and motion sensors on a mobile...
Trailing whitespace in IP address hostnames can bypass same-origin policy — Mozilla
Security researcher Michał Bentkowski reported that adding white-space characters to hostnames that are IP addresses can bypass same-origin policy. This flaw was caused by trailing whitespaces being evaluated differently when parsing IP addresses instead of alphanumeric hostnames. This could lead...
Dragging and dropping images exposes final URL after redirects — Mozilla
Security researcher Mario Gomes reported that when a previously loaded image on a page is drag and dropped into content after a redirect, the redirected URL is available to scripts. This is a violation of the Fetch specification's defined behavior for "Atomic HTTP redirect handling" which states...
Use-after-free in workers while using XMLHttpRequest — Mozilla
Security researcher Looben Yang used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover two related use-after-free vulnerabilities that occur when using XMLHttpRequest in concert with either shared or dedicated workers. These errors occur when the XMLHttpRequest object is attached to a worker but that object...
Use-after-free during text processing with vertical text enabled — Mozilla
Security researcher Scott Bell used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover a use-after-free error during the processing of text when vertical text is enabled. This leads to a potentially exploitable crash...
Out-of-bounds read and write while rendering SVG content — Mozilla
Security researcher Abhishek Arya Inferno of the Google Chrome Security Team used the Address Sanitizer tool to report an out-of-bounds read and an out-of-bounds write when rendering an improperly formatted SVG graphic. This could potentially allow the attacker to read uninitialized memory...
Crash using DrawTarget in Cairo graphics library — Mozilla
Security researcher Atte Kettunen used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover a crash while drawing images through the Cairo graphics library while using the DrawTarget function. This can result in a segmentation fault due to zero-ing out of memory outside the bounds of the image...
Buffer overflow during Web Audio buffering for playback — Mozilla
Using the Address Sanitizer tool, security researcher Atte Kettunen from OUSPG discovered a buffer overflow during interaction with the Web Audio buffer for playback because of an error in the the amount of allocated memory for buffers. This leads to a potentially exploitable crash with some audi...
Local file access via Open Link in new tab — Mozilla
Security researcher Alex Inführ reported that on Firefox for Android it is possible to open links to local files from web content by selecting "Open Link in New Tab" from the context menu using the file: protocol. The web content would have to know the precise location of a malicious local file i...
Access violation with XSLT and uninitialized data — Mozilla
Security researcher Abhishek Arya Inferno of the Google Chrome Security Team used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover an access violation due to uninitialized data during Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation XSLT processing. This leads to a potentially exploitable crash...
Further Privilege escalation through Mozilla Updater — Mozilla
Security researcher Ash reported an issue with the Mozilla Updater on Windows 7 and later versions of Windows. On vulnerable platforms, the Mozilla Updater can be made to load a specific malicious DLL file from the local system. This DLL file can run in a privileged context through the Mozilla...
Inaccessible updater can lead to local privilege escalation — Mozilla
Security researcher Seb Patane reported an issue with the Mozilla Maintenance Service on Windows. He discovered that when the Mozilla Updater executable was inaccessible, the Maintenance Service will behave incorrectly and can be made to use an updater at an arbitrary location. This updater will...
WebGL crash with Mesa graphics driver on Linux — Mozilla
Security researcher miaubiz used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover a crash in WebGL rendering when memory is freed that has not previously been allocated. This issue only affects Linux users who have Intel Mesa graphics drivers. The resulting crash could be potentially exploitable...
Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:19.0 / rv:17.0.3) — Mozilla
Mozilla developers identified and fixed several memory safety bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances, and we presume that with enough effort at least some of these could be...
Privilege escalation through plugin objects — Mozilla
Security researcher Mariusz Mlynski reported that it is possible to open a chrome privileged web page through plugin objects through interaction with SVG elements. This could allow for arbitrary code execution...
Use-after-free in serializeToStream — Mozilla
Security researcher regenrecht reported, via TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative, a use-after-free in XMLSerializer by the exposing of serializeToStream to web content. This can lead to arbitrary code execution when exploited...
Improper character decoding in HZ-GB-2312 charset — Mozilla
Security researcher Masato Kinugawa found when HZ-GB-2312 charset encoding is used for text, the "" character will destroy another character near the chunk delimiter. This can lead to a cross-site scripting XSS attack in pages encoded in HZ-GB-2312...
Heap memory corruption issues found using Address Sanitizer — Mozilla
Security researcher Atte Kettunen from OUSPG reported several heap memory corruption issues found using the Address Sanitizer tool. These issues are potentially exploitable, allowing for remote code execution...
Crash with invalid cast when using instanceof operator — Mozilla
Mozilla community member Ms2ger reported a crash due to an invalid cast when using the instanceof operator on certain types of JavaScript objects. This can lead to a potentially exploitable crash...
Frame scripts calling into untrusted objects bypass security checks — Mozilla
Mozilla security researcher mozbugra4 reported that frame scripts bypass XPConnect security checks when calling untrusted objects. This allows for cross-site scripting XSS attacks through web pages and Firefox extensions. The fix enables the Script Security Manager SSM to force security checks on...
.jar not treated as executable in Firefox 3.6 on Mac — Mozilla
Part of the fix for MFSA 2011-40, reported by Mariusz Mlynski, was to treat .jar files as executables. This is necessary because Java treats downloaded .jar files as fully-featured "Applications" rather than restricting them to the limited privileges of in-browser "Applets". The fix taken in...
Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:1.9.2.7/ 1.9.1.11) — Mozilla
Mozilla developers identified and fixed several memory safety bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances, and we presume that with enough effort at least some of these could be...
Integer Overflow in XSLT Node Sorting — Mozilla
Security researcher Martin Barbella reported via TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative that an XSLT node sorting routine contained an integer overflow vulnerability. In cases where one of the nodes to be sorted contained a very large text value, the integer used to allocate a memory buffer to store...
Deleted frame reuse in multipart/x-mixed-replace image — Mozilla
Security researcher regenrecht reported via TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative a potential reuse of a deleted image frame in Firefox 3.6's handling of multipart/x-mixed-replace images. Although no exploit was shown, re-use of freed memory has led to exploitable vulnerabilities in the past...
Download filename spoofing with RTL override — Mozilla
Mozilla security researchers Jesse Ruderman and Sid Stamm reported that when downloading a file containing a right-to-left override character RTL in the filename, the name displayed in the dialog title bar conflicts with the name of the file shown in the dialog body. An attacker could use this...
Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.8.1.13) — Mozilla
Mozilla developers identified and fixed several stability bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. Some of these crashes showed evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances and we presume that with enough effort at least some of these could be...
Long document title causes startup denial of service — Mozilla
Web pages with extremely long titles--the public demonstration had a title 2.5 million characters long--cause subsequent launches of the browser to appear to "hang" for up to a few minutes, or even crash if the computer has insufficient memory...
Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox for iOS 152.0 — Mozilla
Firefox for iOS used partial domain matching when attaching cookies to PDF requests, allowing a malicious site on a suffix domain to receive cookies belonging to the target site. Firefox for iOS preserved cookies set on the initial PDF request across cross-origin HTTP redirects in...
Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 128 — Mozilla
An error in the ECMA-262 specification relating to Async Generators could have resulted in a type confusion, potentially leading to memory corruption and an exploitable crash. Firefox Android allowed immediate interaction with permission prompts. This could be used for tapjacking. Clipboard code...
Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox for Android 110.1.0 — Mozilla
A potential use-after-free in libaudio was fixed by disabling the AAudio backend when running on Android API below version 30.This bug only affects Firefox for Android. Other versions of Firefox are unaffected...