Bug 1152683 (CVE-2014-1583)

Summary: CVE-2014-1583 Mozilla: Accessing cross-origin objects via the Alarms API (MFSA 2014-82)
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 2014-10-14 17:06:58 UTC 
Mozilla developer Boris Zbarsky reported that a malicious app could use the AlarmAPI to read the values of cross-origin references, such as an iframe's location object, as part of an alarm's JSON data. This allows a malicious app to bypass same-origin policy. 

Note: Users are only at risk for this issue if a web app has been installed.


External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-82.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Boris Zbarsky as the original reporter.
Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2014-10-15 02:40:56 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2014:1635 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1635.html