Privilege escalation vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird due to improper handling of a tab element| ID: oval:org.secpod.oval:def:2309 | Date: (C)2011-09-29 (M)2024-03-27 |
| Class: VULNERABILITY | Family: windows |
The host is installed with Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.20 or Thunderbird 3.x before 3.1.12 and is prone to a privilege escalation vulnerability. The flaws are present in the applications, which allow remote attackers to gain chrome privileges by establishing a content area and registering for drop events. Successful exploitation could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code.
| Platform: |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2022 |
| Microsoft Windows 11 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2019 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2016 |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 |
| Microsoft Windows XP |
| Microsoft Windows Vista |
| Microsoft Windows 7 |
| Microsoft Windows 8 |
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 |
| Microsoft Windows 10 |
| Product: |
| Mozilla Firefox |
| Mozilla Thunderbird |
