Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Mozilla Thunderbird 17.x through 17.0.8, Thunderbird ESR 17.x through 17.0.10, and SeaMonkey before 2.20 allows user-assisted remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an e-mail message containing a data: URL in a (1) OBJECT or (2) EMBED element, a related issue to CVE-2013-6674.
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
Find out more about CVE-2014-2018 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
This issue was resolved in the version of thunderbird as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 via RHSA-2013:1823.
NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
| Base Score | 5.1 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
| Access Vector | Network |
| Access Complexity | High |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | Partial |
| Integrity Impact | Partial |
| Availability Impact | Partial |
Find out more about Red Hat support for the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | firefox | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | thunderbird | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | firefox | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | thunderbird | Will not fix |
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