Mozilla Firefox prior 1.0 ThinkPadSensor::Startup untrusted search path
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A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox (Web Browser) and classified as critical. This issue affects the function ThinkPadSensor::Startup
. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a local privilege escalation vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-426. The product searches for critical resources using an externally-supplied search path that can point to resources that are not under the product's direct control. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:
Untrusted search path vulnerability in the ThinkPadSensor::Startup function in Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.20, Thunderbird 3.x before 3.1.12, allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging write access in an unspecified directory to place a Trojan horse DLL that is loaded into the running Firefox process.
The weakness was disclosed 08/18/2011 by Rafael Gieschke (TippingPoint) with TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative as Bug 642469 as not defined bug report (Bugzilla). It is possible to read the advisory at bugzilla.mozilla.org. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2011-2980. The exploitation is known to be easy. Attacking locally is a requirement. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1574 according to MITRE ATT&CK.
The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 55878 (FreeBSD : mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities (834591a9-c82f-11e0-897d-6c626dd55a41)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family FreeBSD Local Security Checks. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 165573 (SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update Mozilla Firefox (SUSE-SA:2011:037)).
Upgrading to version 1.0 eliminates this vulnerability. Furthermore it is possible to detect and prevent this kind of attack with TippingPoint and the filter 11640.
The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (55878). The entries 58320, 58319, 58318 and 58317 are pretty similar.
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CPE 2.3
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Class: Untrusted search pathCWE: CWE-426
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Nessus ID: 55878
Nessus Name: FreeBSD : mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities (834591a9-c82f-11e0-897d-6c626dd55a41)
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OpenVAS ID: 70261
OpenVAS Name: FreeBSD Ports: firefox
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Saint ID: exploit_info/firefox_insecure_library_load_sensor
Saint Name: Firefox sensor.dll Insecure Library Loading
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08/01/2011 🔍08/16/2011 🔍
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Sources
Vendor: mozilla.orgProduct: mozilla.org
Advisory: Bug 642469
Researcher: Rafael Gieschke (TippingPoint)
Organization: TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2011-2980 (🔍)
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Vulnerability Center: 32751 - Mozilla Firefox 3-3.2.19 and Thunderbird 3-3.1.11 Code Execution Vulnerability, Medium
SecurityFocus: 49166 - RETIRED: Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird/SeaMonkey MFSA 2011-29 through -30 Multiple Vulnerabilities
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Entry
Created: 03/23/2015 16:50Updated: 11/18/2021 03:14
Changes: 03/23/2015 16:50 (68), 03/29/2017 18:27 (13), 11/18/2021 03:00 (4), 11/18/2021 03:07 (2), 11/18/2021 03:14 (1)
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