Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2012-100
Improper security filtering for cross-origin wrappers
- Announced
- November 20, 2012
- Reporter
- Bobby Holley
- Impact
- High
- Products
- Firefox, Firefox ESR, SeaMonkey, Thunderbird, Thunderbird ESR
- Fixed in
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- Firefox 17
- Firefox ESR 10.0.11
- SeaMonkey 2.14
- Thunderbird 17
- Thunderbird ESR 10.0.11
Description
Mozilla developer Bobby Holley reported that security wrappers filter at the time of property access, but once a function is returned, the caller can use this function without further security checks. This affects cross-origin wrappers, allowing for write actions on objects when only read actions should be properly allowed. This can lead to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
In general these flaws cannot be exploited through email in the Thunderbird and SeaMonkey products because scripting is disabled, but are potentially a risk in browser or browser-like contexts in those products.