Bug 1095074 (CVE-2014-1526)

Summary: CVE-2014-1526 Mozilla: Debugger can bypass XrayWrappers with JavaScript (MFSA 2014-47)
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2014-05-07 05:03:49 UTC 
Mozilla developer Boris Zbarsky discovered that the debugger will work with some objects while bypassing XrayWrappers. This could lead to privilege escalation if the victim used the debugger to interact with a malicious page. 


External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-47.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Boris Zbarsky  as the original reporter.


Statement:

This issue does not affect the version of firefox and thunderbird as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6