CVE-2011-2370

Firefox < 5.0 - Unauthenticated Add-on Installation via xpinstall Whitelist Bypass

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry signature x_refsource_oval
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14278
Issue Tracking x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=645699

Scores

EPSS 0.0097
EPSS Percentile 58.1%

Details

CWE
CWE-264
Status published
Products (47)
mozilla/firefox 1.0 (2 CPE variants)
mozilla/firefox 1.0.1
mozilla/firefox 1.0.2
mozilla/firefox 1.0.3
mozilla/firefox 1.0.4
mozilla/firefox 1.0.5
mozilla/firefox 1.0.6
mozilla/firefox 1.0.7
mozilla/firefox 1.0.8
mozilla/firefox 1.5 (3 CPE variants)
... and 37 more
Published Jun 30, 2011
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026