Mozilla Firefox up to 47 on Android Address Bar input validation

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox up to 47 on Android. It has been classified as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component Address Bar. This manipulation causes input validation. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2016-5267. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Mozilla Firefox up to 47 on Android (Web Browser) and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code block of the component Address Bar. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a input validation vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-20. The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 on Android allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar via left-to-right characters in conjunction with a right-to-left character set.

The weakness was published 08/02/2016 by Rafay Baloch (musicDespiteEverything) as MFSA 2016-82 as confirmed security advisory (Website). The advisory is shared at mozilla.org. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2016-5267 since 06/03/2016. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The advisory points out:

Security researcher Rafay Baloch reported a mechanism to spoof the addressbar in Firefox for Android using right-to-left character sets when combined with left-to-right characters. This can be used to cause only certain portions of the loaded left-to-right character portion of the URL to be displayed, misleading users as to what site is loaded, possibly leading to phishing attacks.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 93429 (FreeBSD : Mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities (aa1aefe3-6e37-47db-bfda-343ef4acb1b5)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family FreeBSD Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 370108 (Mozilla Firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities (MFSA 2016-62 to MFSA 2016-84)).

Upgrading to version 48 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 Tenable (93429), SecurityFocus (BID 92260†) and SecurityTracker (ID 1036508†). Similar entries are available at VDB-90424, VDB-90425, VDB-90426 and VDB-90427. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Class: Input validation
CWE: CWE-20
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Nessus ID: 93429
Nessus Name: FreeBSD : Mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities (aa1aefe3-6e37-47db-bfda-343ef4acb1b5)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Firefox 48

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mozilla.org
Product: mozilla.org

Advisory: MFSA 2016-82
Researcher: Rafay Baloch (musicDespiteEverything)
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2016-5267 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2016-5267
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-90445
SecurityFocus: 92260 - Mozilla Firefox Multiple Security Vulnerabilities
SecurityTracker: 1036508

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20130704
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Entryinfo

Created: 08/04/2016 09:21
Updated: 10/09/2024 12:23
Changes: 08/04/2016 09:21 (70), 03/16/2019 22:28 (13), 10/09/2024 12:23 (19)
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Cache ID: 216:11D:103

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