Bug 1152683 (CVE-2014-1583) - CVE-2014-1583 Mozilla: Accessing cross-origin objects via the Alarms API (MFSA 2014-82)
Summary: CVE-2014-1583 Mozilla: Accessing cross-origin objects via the Alarms API (MFS...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2014-1583
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1144388
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-10-14 17:06 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-12 05:22 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2016-06-10 21:23:04 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2014:1635 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: firefox security update 2014-10-15 06:39:52 UTC

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


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