CVE-2002-2436 Information disclosure in n/a

What is CVE-2002-2436?

CVE-2002-2436 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 7 Dec 2011. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 4.0, Thunderbird before 3.3, and SeaMonkey before 2.1 does not properly handle the :visited pseudo-class, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information about visited web pages via a crafted HTML document, a related issue to CVE-2010-2264.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2002-2436?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Seamonkey, Mozilla Thunderbird.

How do I fix CVE-2002-2436?

No fix has been published for CVE-2002-2436 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2002-2436 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2002-2436 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox

• CVE-2019-11708 Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird Sandbox Escape Exploited Critical 10.0
• CVE-2010-3765 Mozilla Multiple Products Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-26486 Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free Exploited Critical 9.6
• CVE-2022-26485 Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2019-11707 Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird Type Confusion Exploited High 8.8

All Mozilla Firefox vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-j5hm-v5hc-jgjr.