PT-2016-1814 · Mozilla+3 · Firefox+3

Mark Goodwin + 1 · Published 2016-04-26 · Updated 2024-12-12 · CVE-2016-2820

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 46.0

Description The issue is related to the Firefox Health Reports feature, which does not properly restrict the origin of events. This makes it easier for remote attackers to modify sharing preferences by leveraging access to the remote-report IFRAME element. The exploitation of this issue can allow a remote attacker to change the sharing settings.

Recommendations For versions prior to 46.0, update to version 46.0 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Improper Access Control

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-284

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-1433

ALT-PU-2016-1454

BDU:2016-01147

CVE-2016-2820

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_1211-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1

USN-2936-1

USN-2936-3

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Firefox

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 2087

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-48.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-2936-3 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2820 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2820 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2812 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00005.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2808 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2804 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00038.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2820 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-48 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2936-1 · Vendor Advisory