Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2014-09
Cross-origin information leak through web workers
- Announced
- February 4, 2014
- Reporter
- Masato Kinugawa
- Impact
- High
- Products
- Firefox, Firefox ESR, SeaMonkey, Thunderbird
- Fixed in
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- Firefox 27
- Firefox ESR 24.3
- SeaMonkey 2.24
- Thunderbird 24.3
Description
Security researcher Masato Kinugawa reported a cross-origin information leak through web workers' error messages. This violates same-origin policy and the leaked information could potentially be used to gather authentication tokens and other data from third-party websites.
In general this flaw cannot be exploited through email in the Thunderbird and Seamonkey products because scripting is disabled in mail, but is potentially a risk in browser or browser-like contexts.