Tor Browser 4.0.3 with websockets enabled by default

2015.03.04

Credit: Pablo

Risk: Medium

Local: No

Remote: Yes

CVE: N/A

CWE: N/A

Hello,
I am seeing that Tor Browser 4.0.3 apparently has the configuration
of websocket of Firefox enabled (true) by default .... I think that this is
something that should have been corrected a long time ago (Tor bug 5741).
I think that this is a configuration bug. Am I wrong ?
Link:
http://picpaste.com/websocket_tor_config.png
Regards,
Pablo.

References:

http://picpaste.com/websocket_tor_config.png

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Mar/13

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