CVE-2011-2980 Path traversal in n/a

What is CVE-2011-2980?

CVE-2011-2980 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 18 Aug 2011. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the ThinkPadSensor::Startup function in Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.20, Thunderbird 3.x before 3.1.12, allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging write access in an unspecified directory to place a Trojan horse DLL that is loaded into the running Firefox process.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2011-2980?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird.

How do I fix CVE-2011-2980?

No fix has been published for CVE-2011-2980 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2011-2980 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2011-2980 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-r3cm-vcqx-c6pp.