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CVE-2014-8631 (GCVE-0-2014-8631)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-12-11 11:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 13:26
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Summary
The Chrome Object Wrapper (COW) implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 34.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.31 supports native-interface passing, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended DOM object restrictions via a call to an unspecified method.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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Date Public
2014-12-02 00:00
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