Mozilla Firefox up to 87.x Session History access control

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Mozilla Firefox up to 87.x. This affects an unknown part of the component Session History Handler. The manipulation results in access control. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2021-24001. There is no exploit available. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Mozilla Firefox up to 87.x (Web Browser). Affected is some unknown functionality of the component Session History Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-264. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was shared 06/25/2021. The advisory is shared for download at mozilla.org. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2021-24001. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 249829 (Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2021-24001), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 88.0 eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at mozilla.org.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (249829). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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• Web Browser

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• Mozilla

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• Firefox

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• 87.x

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• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.mozilla.org/
• Product: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/

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