Mozilla Firefox JavaScript watch() Privilege Escalation
9
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
12/19/2006
07/25/2018
01/29/2007
02/13/2015
Description
Certain versions of Mozilla Firefox contain a JavaScript flaw when using the watch() function which may allow an attacker to gain elevated privileges on a target machine.
Solution(s)
- mozilla-firefox-upgrade-1_5_0_9
- mozilla-firefox-upgrade-latest
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