CVE-2011-3001

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-09-29 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 6, Thunderbird before 7.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.4 do not prevent manual add-on installation in response to the holding of the Enter key, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via a crafted web site that triggers an unspecified internal error.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: 4.0, 4.0-beta1, 4.0-beta10, 4.0-beta11, 4.0-beta12, 4.0-beta2 (+10)
Mozilla Seamonkey: through 2.3.3; 1.0, 1.0-alpha, 1.0-beta, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3 (+60)
Mozilla Thunderbird: through 6.0.2; 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+93)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-11/msg00020.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-10/msg00002.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/46315
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:139
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:140
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:141
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:142
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-40.html
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=672485
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14442
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-11/msg00020.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-10/msg00002.html

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