MFSA2014-82 Firefox: Accessing cross-origin objects via the Alarms API (CVE-2014-1583)
5
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
10/14/2014
07/25/2018
10/16/2014
04/05/2017
Description
The Alarm API in Mozilla Firefox before 33.0 and Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.2 does not properly restrict toJSON calls, which allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy via crafted API calls that access sensitive information within the JSON data of an alarm.
Solution(s)
- mozilla-firefox-esr-upgrade-31_2
- mozilla-firefox-upgrade-33_0
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