CVE-2011-3666

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 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: 2011-12-21 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.25 and Thunderbird before 3.1.17 on Mac OS X do not consider .jar files to be executable files, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via a crafted file. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2011-2372 on Mac OS X.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 3.6.24; 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+123)
Mozilla Thunderbird: through 3.1.16; 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+88)

References

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-59.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026445
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026447
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=704622
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14831
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-59.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026445
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026447
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=704622
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14831

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