PT-2016-1452 · Mozilla+5 · Firefox Esr+6

Llamakko · Published 2016-03-08 · Updated 2024-12-12 · CVE-2016-1965

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 45.0 Firefox ESR versions 38.x prior to 38.7

Description The issue is related to errors in the implementation of the back button functionality. It can be exploited by a remote attacker to spoof the address bar using the history.back method and the location.protocol property. This could potentially allow an attacker to deceive users about the actual website they are visiting.

Recommendations For Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 45.0, update to version 45.0 or later. For Firefox ESR versions 38.x prior to 38.7, update to version 38.7 or later.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-254

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-1277

ALT-PU-2016-1454

BDU:2016-00753

CESA-2016_0373

CVE-2016-1965

DSA-3510-1

MGASA-2016-0105

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_0731-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_0733-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_0876-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_0894-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10230-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1

RHSA-2016:0373

RHSA-2016_0373

SUSE-SU-2016:0727-1

SUSE-SU-2016:0777-1

SUSE-SU-2016:0909-1

USN-2917-1

USN-2917-2

USN-2917-3

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Firefox Esr

Firefox

Red Hat

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 2180

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2800 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2802 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-34 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10230-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-81 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1958 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-1965 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2798 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3510 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2799 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-24 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-136 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00091.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-esr · Vendor Advisory