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A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox up to 50 (Web Browser). It has been rated as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Add-Ons SDK. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. Impacted is integrity.
The bug was discovered 12/13/2016. The weakness was shared 12/13/2016 by Christian Holler (lion) as MFSA 2016-94 as confirmed security advisory (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at mozilla.org. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2016-9903 since 12/07/2016. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059.007 according to MITRE ATT&CK.
The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 900045 , 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 196652 (Ubuntu Security Notification for Firefox Vulnerabilities (USN-3155-1)).
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 (900045). The entries 94489, 94490, 94491 and 94492 are related to this item.
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CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
CVSSv4
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CVSSv3
VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.2VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.1
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VulDB Temp Score: 4.1
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Exploiting
Class: Cross site scriptingCWE: CWE-79 / CWE-74 / CWE-707
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Remote: Yes
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Nessus ID: 900045
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OpenVAS ID: 802170
OpenVAS Name: Mozilla Firefox Security Updates( mfsa_2016-94_2016-95 )-Windows
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Recommended: UpgradeStatus: 🔍
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Upgrade: Firefox 50.1
Timeline
12/07/2016 🔍12/13/2016 🔍
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Sources
Vendor: mozilla.orgProduct: mozilla.org
Advisory: MFSA 2016-94
Researcher: Christian Holler (lion)
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2016-9903 (🔍)
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SecurityTracker: 1037461
SecurityFocus: 94883 - Mozilla Firefox MFSA2016-94 Multiple Security Vulnerabilities
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Entry
Created: 12/15/2016 10:45Updated: 10/08/2022 17:34
Changes: 12/15/2016 10:45 (72), 07/07/2019 22:09 (7), 10/08/2022 17:26 (4), 10/08/2022 17:34 (1)
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