Mozilla Firefox 44 Content Security Policy access control

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A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox 44 (Web Browser) and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown part of the component Content Security Policy. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-264. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was presented 03/08/2016 as MFSA 2016-17 as confirmed security advisory (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at mozilla.org. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2016-1954 since 01/20/2016. The exploitation is known to be easy. Attacking locally is a requirement. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 10/23/2024). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 89763 (CentOS 5 / 6 / 7 : firefox (CESA-2016:0373)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family CentOS Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 196453 (Ubuntu Security Notification for Thunderbird Vulnerabilities (USN-2934-1)).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (111324), Tenable (89763) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-57125†). See VDB-81201, VDB-81206, VDB-81207 and VDB-81209 for similar entries. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 9.1
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 8.7

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Class: Access control
CWE: CWE-264
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Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Status: Unproven

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Nessus ID: 89763
Nessus Name: CentOS 5 / 6 / 7 : firefox (CESA-2016:0373)
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OpenVAS ID: 703510
OpenVAS Name: Debian Security Advisory DSA 3510-1 (iceweasel - security update)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mozilla.org
Product: mozilla.org

Advisory: MFSA 2016-17
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2016-1954 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2016-1954
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-81203

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X-Force: 111324 - Mozilla Firefox CSP privilege escalation
SecurityTracker: 1035215
Vulnerability Center: 57125 - Mozilla Firefox <45 and <ESR 38.7 Remote File System Write via CSP Reports - CVE-2016-1954, Medium

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/09/2016 10:02 AM
Updated: 10/23/2024 03:38 AM
Changes: 03/09/2016 10:02 AM (68), 09/01/2018 09:01 AM (16), 07/09/2022 11:09 AM (4), 10/23/2024 03:38 AM (26)
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