CVE-2011-2370

high

Description

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.

References

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14278

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=645699

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-28.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-07/msg00001.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2011-06-30

Updated: 2017-09-19

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Severity: High