PT-2011-4573 · Mozilla · Firefox+1

Published 2011-12-21 · Updated 2017-09-19 · CVE-2011-3666

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.8

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 3.6.25 Thunderbird versions prior to 3.1.17

Description The issue allows user-assisted remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via a crafted file, because .jar files are not considered executable files on Mac OS X.

Recommendations For Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 3.6.25, update to version 3.6.25 or later. For Thunderbird versions prior to 3.1.17, update to version 3.1.17 or later.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

CVE-2011-3666

Affected Products

Firefox

Thunderbird

References · 6

• http://mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-59.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-3666 · Security Note
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=704622 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1026447 · Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14831 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1026445 · Note