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Mozilla Firefox Proxy AutoConfig Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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Mozilla Firefox Proxy AutoConfig Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
07/26/2006
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/01/2006
Modified
05/23/2019

Description

Certain versions of Mozilla Firefox contain a flaw in the logic that handles proxy autoconfig (PAC) server messages. As a result, a malicious PAC server can execute arbitrary code under the privileges of the browser process.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-1_5_0_5
  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-latest

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