Mozilla Firefox up to 47 Error Page 7pk security

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox up to 47. It has been declared as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Error Page Handler. Such manipulation leads to 7pk security. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2016-5268. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox up to 47 (Web Browser) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the component Error Page Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a 7pk security vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-254. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was released 08/02/2016 by Holger Fuhrmannek (musicDespiteEverything) as MFSA 2016-83 as confirmed security advisory (Website). The advisory is available at mozilla.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2016-5268 since 06/03/2016. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1211 by the MITRE ATT&CK project. The advisory points out:

Security researcher musicDespiteEverything reported that some of the special about: URLs used by Firefox to display system information or error messages can incorporate text passed as parmeters. These could be used in spoofing attacks.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 92785 (Ubuntu 12.04 LTS / 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : firefox vulnerabilities (USN-3044-1)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Ubuntu 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. Attack attempts may be identified with Snort ID 40015.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (92785), SecurityFocus (BID 92260†) and SecurityTracker (ID 1036508†). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at VDB-90424, VDB-90425, VDB-90426 and VDB-90427. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Class: 7pk security
CWE: CWE-254
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Nessus ID: 92785
Nessus Name: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS / 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : firefox vulnerabilities (USN-3044-1)
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OpenVAS ID: 65514
OpenVAS Name: SuSE Update for MozillaFirefox, mozilla-nss openSUSE-SU-2016:1964-1 (MozillaFirefox, mozilla-nss)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Firefox 48

Snort ID: 40015
Snort Message: BROWSER-FIREFOX Mozilla Firefox about field spoofing attempt
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mozilla.org
Product: mozilla.org

Advisory: MFSA 2016-83
Researcher: Holger Fuhrmannek (musicDespiteEverything)
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2016-5268 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2016-5268
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-90446
SecurityFocus: 92260 - Mozilla Firefox Multiple Security Vulnerabilities
SecurityTracker: 1036508

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Entryinfo

Created: 08/04/2016 09:21
Updated: 10/09/2024 12:52
Changes: 08/04/2016 09:21 (75), 03/16/2019 22:40 (13), 09/09/2022 18:28 (4), 10/09/2024 12:52 (16)
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