National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-2370

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: CONFIRM

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

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

External Source: CONFIRM

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

Type: Advisory

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

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14278

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14278

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SA:2011:028

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

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14278

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14278