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CVE-2016-2817

Date: April 30, 2016

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.

Severity Score

Related Resources (12)

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1227462
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2936-3
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-46.html
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2817
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-2817
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00005.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035692
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2936-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2936-2
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00038.html
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2016-2817

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control

CWE-264

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): REQUIRED
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): LOW
Integrity (I): LOW
Availability (A): NONE

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): MEDIUM
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): PARTIAL
Availability (A): NONE
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