PT-2016-2521 · Mozilla+5 · Firefox Esr+6

Abdulrahman Alqabandi · Published 2016-08-02 · Updated 2024-12-12 · CVE-2016-5265

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 48.0 Firefox ESR versions prior to 45.3

Description The issue allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy, conduct Universal XSS (UXSS) attacks, or read arbitrary files by arranging for the presence of a crafted HTML document and a crafted shortcut file in the same local directory. This is due to a lack of protection for service data.

Recommendations For Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 48.0, update to version 48.0 or later. For Firefox ESR versions prior to 45.3, update to version 45.3 or later.

Fix

Information Disclosure

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-1836

ALT-PU-2017-1578

BDU:2016-01912

CESA-2016_1551

CVE-2016-5265

DLA-585-1

DSA-3640-1

MGASA-2016-0278

OPENSUSE-SU-2016:2253-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016:2254-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_1964-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_2026-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10230-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1

RHSA-2016:1551

RHSA-2016_1551

SUSE-SU-2016:2061-1

SUSE-SU-2016:2131-1

SUSE-SU-2016:2195-1

USN-3044-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Firefox Esr

Firefox

Red Hat

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 2166

• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-67 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00004.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:2131-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-64 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-70 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10230-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2016-01912 · Security Note
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-76 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2016:2254-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-63 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-esr · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3044-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-80 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-79 · Vendor Advisory