Bug 911842 (CVE-2013-0774) - CVE-2013-0774 Mozilla: Privacy leak in JavaScript Workers (MFSA 2013-25)
Summary: CVE-2013-0774 Mozilla: Privacy leak in JavaScript Workers (MFSA 2013-25)
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2013-0774
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
urgent
urgent
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 895009
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-02-16 09:18 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-11 22:05 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-02-16 11:17:50 UTC
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-02-16 09:18:48 UTC
Mozilla security researcher Frederik Braun discovered that since Firefox 15 the file system location of the active browser profile was available to JavaScript workers. While not dangerous by itself, this could potentially be combined with other vulnerabilities to target the profile in an attack.

In general these flaws cannot be exploited through email in the Thunderbird and SeaMonkey products because scripting is disabled, but are potentially a risk in browser or browser-like contexts in those products.


External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-25.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Frederik Braun 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


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