CVE-2011-2984

Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.20, SeaMonkey 2.x, Thunderbird 3.x before 3.1.12, and possibly other products does not properly handle the dropping of a tab element, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript code with chrome privileges by establishing a content area and registering for drop events.

Score

CVSS 2.0 10.0 Critical

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2011-08-18

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-94

Affected products

• Firefox (Mozilla)
• Seamonkey (Mozilla)
• Thunderbird (Mozilla)

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-08/msg00023.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-08/msg00027.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2295
• http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2296
• http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2297
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:127
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-30.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1164.html
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=572129
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14358