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MFSA2013-73 SeaMonkey: Same-origin bypass with web workers and XMLHttpRequest (CVE-2013-1714)

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MFSA2013-73 SeaMonkey: Same-origin bypass with web workers and XMLHttpRequest (CVE-2013-1714)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
08/06/2013
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/08/2014
Modified
04/05/2017

Description

The Web Workers implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 23.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.8, Thunderbird before 17.0.8, Thunderbird ESR 17.x before 17.0.8, and SeaMonkey before 2.20 does not properly restrict XMLHttpRequest calls, which allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via unspecified vectors.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-seamonkey-upgrade-2_20_0

References

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