MEDIUM
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
Published Sep 29, 2011
4.3
MEDIUMCVSS 2.0
EPSS 1.47%
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
No data.
Configuration 1
OR
- 4.0
- 4.0
- 4.0
- 4.0
- 4.0
- 4.0
- 4.0
- 4.0
- 4.0
- 4.0
- 4.0
- 4.0
- 4.0
- 4.0.1
- 5.0
- 6.0
Configuration 2
OR
- ≤ 6.0.2
- 0.1
- 0.2
- 0.3
- 0.4
- 0.5
- 0.6
- 0.7
- 0.7.1
- 0.7.2
- 0.7.3
- 0.8
- 0.9
- 1.0
- 1.0.1
- 1.0.2
- 1.0.3
- 1.0.4
- 1.0.5
- 1.0.5
- 1.0.6
- 1.0.7
- 1.0.8
- 1.5
- 1.5
- 1.5.0.1
- 1.5.0.2
- 1.5.0.3
- 1.5.0.4
- 1.5.0.5
- 1.5.0.6
- 1.5.0.7
- 1.5.0.8
- 1.5.0.9
- 1.5.0.10
- 1.5.0.11
- 1.5.0.12
- 1.5.0.13
- 1.5.0.14
- 1.5.1
- 1.5.2
- 1.7.1
- 1.7.3
- 2.0
- 2.0.0.0
- 2.0.0.1
- 2.0.0.2
- 2.0.0.3
- 2.0.0.4
- 2.0.0.5
- 2.0.0.6
- 2.0.0.7
- 2.0.0.8
- 2.0.0.9
- 2.0.0.11
- 2.0.0.12
- 2.0.0.13
- 2.0.0.14
- 2.0.0.15
- 2.0.0.16
- 2.0.0.17
- 2.0.0.18
- 2.0.0.19
- 2.0.0.20
- 2.0.0.21
- 2.0.0.22
- 2.0.0.23
- 2.0_.4
- 2.0_.5
- 2.0_.6
- 2.0_.9
- 2.0_.12
- 2.0_.13
- 2.0_.14
- 2.0_8
- 3.0
- 3.0.1
- 3.0.2
- 3.0.3
- 3.0.4
- 3.0.5
- 3.0.6
- 3.0.7
- 3.0.8
- 3.0.9
- 3.0.10
- 3.0.11
- 3.1
- 3.1.1
- 3.1.2
- 3.1.3
- 3.1.4
- 3.1.5
- 3.1.6
- 3.1.7
- 3.1.8
- 3.1.9
- 3.1.10
- 3.1.11
- 5.0
Configuration 3
OR
- ≤ 2.3.3
- 1.0
- 1.0
- 1.0
- 1.0
- 1.0
- 1.0
- 1.0.1
- 1.0.2
- 1.0.3
- 1.0.4
- 1.0.5
- 1.0.6
- 1.0.7
- 1.0.8
- 1.0.9
- 1.0.99
- 1.1
- 1.1
- 1.1
- 1.1.1
- 1.1.2
- 1.1.3
- 1.1.4
- 1.1.5
- 1.1.5
- 1.1.6
- 1.1.7
- 1.1.8
- 1.1.9
- 1.1.10
- 1.1.11
- 1.1.12
- 1.1.13
- 1.1.14
- 1.1.15
- 1.1.16
- 1.1.17
- 1.1.18
- 1.1.19
- 1.5.0.8
- 1.5.0.9
- 1.5.0.10
- 2.0
- 2.0
- 2.0
- 2.0
- 2.0
- 2.0
- 2.0
- 2.0
- 2.0.1
- 2.0.2
- 2.0.3
- 2.0.4
- 2.0.5
- 2.0.6
- 2.0.7
- 2.0.8
- 2.0.9
- 2.0.10
- 2.0.11
- 2.0.12
- 2.0.13
- 2.0.14
- 2.0a1
- 2.0a1pre
- 2.1
- 2.1
- 2.1
No data.
No Red Hat product state for this CVE.
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
4.3 MEDIUM NVD
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact None
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
1.47% 0.01467
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.
EPSS probability 0.01467
Score over time
2022–2026- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (9 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | 1.47% (0.01467) | 72.76th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 1.01% (0.01006) | 58.34th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 0.20% (0.00201) | 40.16th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 12, 2024 | 0.99% (0.00987) | 84.17th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 30, 2024 | 0.99% (0.00987) | 83.18th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 0.99% (0.00987) | 81.18th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 1.96% (0.01955) | 78.47th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 1.96% (0.01955) | 76.59th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 1.96% (0.01955) | 55.71th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
Weaknesses (1)
References (10)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-11/msg00020.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-10/msg00002.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
- http://secunia.com/advisories/46315 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:139 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:140 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:141 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:142 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-40.html x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=672485 x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14442 vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
| Link | Providers | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-11/msg00020.html | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE | |
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-10/msg00002.html | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE | |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/46315 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA | |
| http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:139 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA | |
| http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:140 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA | |
| http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:141 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA | |
| http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:142 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA | |
| http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-40.html | x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory | |
| https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=672485 | x_refsource_CONFIRM | |
| https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14442 | vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL |
Change history (0)
No recorded changes yet.
Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Sep 29, 2011
Updated Aug 6, 2024
Reserved Aug 1, 2011
Link CVE-2011-3001
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a