CVE-2016-2817 in Firefox

Riassunto

di MITRE

The WebExtension sandbox feature in browser/components/extensions/ext-tabs.js in Mozilla Firefox before 46.0 does not properly restrict principal inheritance during chrome.tabs.create and chrome.tabs.update API calls, which allows remote attackers to conduct Universal XSS (UXSS) attacks via a crafted extension that accesses a (1) javascript: or (2) data: URL.

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• Prenotare: 01/03/2016
• Divulgazione: 30/04/2016
• Moderazione: accettato
• Voce: VDB-82977
• CPE: pronto
• CWE: CWE-264 (confermato)
• CVSS: 5.4 (NVD)
• EPSS: 0.01252
• KEV: no
• Attività: molto basso
• Settore: Homeoffice, Lawfirm, ...

Fonti

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2817
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2817
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2016-2817/