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CVE-2011-2370

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2011-06-30 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 5.0 does not properly enforce the whitelist for the xpinstall functionality, which allows remote attackers to trigger an installation dialog for a (1) add-on or (2) theme via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: through 4.0.1; 1.0, 1.0-preview_release, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4 (+115)

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-07/msg00001.html
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-28.html
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=645699
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14278
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-07/msg00001.html
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-28.html
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=645699
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14278

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