Check Point Advisories

Mozilla Firefox Flash Privileged Code Injection (CVE-2013-0758)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2013-1914
Date Published: 9 Jul 2013
Severity: High
Last Updated: Thursday 25 April, 2024
Source: CVE-2013-0758
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R75
Who is Vulnerable? Firefox 17.0.1
Vulnerability Description A privileged code injection vulnerability has been reported in Mozilla Firefox.
Vulnerability DetailsThe vulnerability is due to a design flaw which allows to open a privileged chrome web page through plugin objects. Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block attempts to exploit this vulnerability.

In order for the protection to be activated, update your product to the latest update. For information on how to update , go to SBP-2006-05, Protection tab and select the version of your choice.

Security Gateway R75 / R71 / R70

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Mozilla Firefox Flash Privileged Code Injection protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
  2. Install policy on all modules.

SmartView Tracker will log the following entries:
Attack Name: Content Protection Violation
Attack Information: Mozilla Firefox Flash Privileged Code Injection

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