CVE-2011-2605

Firefox < 3.6.18 and 4.x through 4.0.1 - CRLF Injection via Cookie String Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

CRLF injection vulnerability in the nsCookieService::SetCookieStringInternal function in netwerk/cookie/nsCookieService.cpp in Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.18 and 4.x through 4.0.1, and Thunderbird before 3.1.11, allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via a string containing a \n (newline) character, which is not properly handled in a JavaScript "document.cookie =" expression, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-2374.

References (7)

Core 7
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%3A14401
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0887.html
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0885.html
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0888.html
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0886.html

Scores

EPSS 0.0103
EPSS Percentile 59.6%

Details

CWE
CWE-94
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