ghsa-px89-65ch-24x4
Vulnerability from github
Published
2022-05-17 02:37
Modified
2022-05-17 02:37
Severity ?
5.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Details

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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{
  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2016-2817"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2016-04-30T17:59:00Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "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.",
  "id": "GHSA-px89-65ch-24x4",
  "modified": "2022-05-17T02:37:35Z",
  "published": "2022-05-17T02:37:35Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2817"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1227462"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00005.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00038.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-46.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035692"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2936-1"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2936-2"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2936-3"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ]
}


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