CVE-2011-3666 Security feature bypass in n/a

What is CVE-2011-3666?

CVE-2011-3666 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 21 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

Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.25 and Thunderbird before 3.1.17 on Mac OS X do not consider .jar files to be executable files, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via a crafted file. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2011-2372 on Mac OS X.

Weakness: CWE-264

Which versions are affected by CVE-2011-3666?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird.

How do I fix CVE-2011-3666?

No fix has been published for CVE-2011-3666 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2011-3666 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2011-3666 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox

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• 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-97c6-9gg8-w889.