CVE-2011-3655

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-11-09 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-94

Description

Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 7.0 and Thunderbird 5.0 through 7.0 perform access control without checking for use of the NoWaiverWrapper wrapper, which allows remote attackers to gain privileges via a crafted web site.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: 4.0, 4.0-beta1, 4.0-beta10, 4.0-beta11, 4.0-beta12, 4.0-beta2 (+14)
Mozilla Thunderbird: 5.0, 6.0, 6.0.1, 6.0.2, 7.0

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-11/msg00020.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/49055
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-52.html
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=672182
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14202
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-11/msg00020.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/49055
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-52.html
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=672182
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14202

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