Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2015-75

COPPA error screen in FxAccounts signup allows loading arbitrary web content into B2G root process

Announced
August 6, 2015
Reporter
Kartikaya Gupta
Impact
Moderate
Products
Firefox OS
Fixed in
  • Firefox OS 2.2

Description

Kartikaya Gupta of Mozilla reported an issue within the Firefox Accounts setup dialog that would embed content from a static external URI into the System process. An attacker in a position to control a vulnerable device's network connection could use this to inject arbitrary web content into the System app.

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