PT-2016-1459 · Mozilla+5 · Firefox Esr+6

Abdulrahman Alqabandi · Published 2016-03-08 · Updated 2024-12-12 · CVE-2016-1958

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 Mozilla Firefox ESR versions prior to 38.7

Description The issue is related to errors in security settings in the browser/base/content/browser.js function of Mozilla Firefox and Firefox ESR, allowing remote attackers to spoof the address bar via a javascript: URL. This can be exploited by a remote attacker to fake the address bar.

Recommendations For Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 45.0, update to version 45.0 or later. For Mozilla Firefox ESR versions 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:2016-00760

CESA-2016_0373

CVE-2016-1958

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 · 2181

• 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://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-1958 · Security Note
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-34 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10230-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-1958 · Security Note
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-81 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1958 · Vendor Advisory
• 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://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-1958 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-136 · Vendor Advisory