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A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox up to 50 (Web Browser) and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown part of the component Shared Atom Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality.
The bug was discovered 12/13/2016. The weakness was released 12/13/2016 by Christian Holler (Nils) as MFSA 2016-94 as confirmed security advisory (Website). The advisory is shared for download at mozilla.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2016-9904 since 12/07/2016. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1592.
The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 900006 , which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 236208 (Red Hat Update Firefox Security (RHSA-2016:2946)).
Upgrading to version 50.1 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.
The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (900006). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at 94489, 94490, 94491 and 94492.
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CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
CVSSv4
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CVSSv3
VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.9VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.8
VulDB Base Score: 4.3
VulDB Temp Score: 4.1
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NVD Base Score: 7.5
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CVSSv2
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Exploiting
Class: Information disclosureCWE: CWE-200 / CWE-284 / CWE-266
ATT&CK: T1592
Local: No
Remote: Yes
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Status: Not defined
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Nessus ID: 900006
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OpenVAS ID: 881932
OpenVAS Name: CentOS Update for firefox CESA-2016:2946 centos7
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Countermeasures
Recommended: UpgradeStatus: 🔍
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Upgrade: Firefox 50.1
Timeline
12/07/2016 🔍12/13/2016 🔍
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12/15/2016 🔍
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Sources
Vendor: mozilla.orgProduct: mozilla.org
Advisory: MFSA 2016-94
Researcher: Christian Holler (Nils)
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2016-9904 (🔍)
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SecurityTracker: 1037461
SecurityFocus: 94885 - Mozilla Firefox MFSA2016-94 and MFSA2016-95 Multiple Security Vulnerabilities
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Entry
Created: 12/15/2016 10:45Updated: 10/08/2022 16:48
Changes: 12/15/2016 10:45 (72), 07/07/2019 21:47 (7), 10/08/2022 16:48 (4)
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