PT-2016-5225 · Mozilla+5 · Firefox Esr+6

Jordi Chancel · Published 2016-06-07 · Updated 2024-12-12 · CVE-2016-2822

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 47.0 Mozilla Firefox ESR versions 45.x prior to 45.2

Description The issue allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar. This can be achieved via a SELECT element with a persistent menu.

Recommendations For versions prior to 47.0, update to version 47.0 or later. For Firefox ESR versions 45.x prior to 45.2, update to version 45.2 or later.

Fix

Improper Access Control

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-284

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-1630

ALT-PU-2017-1578

CESA-2016_1217

CVE-2016-2822

DLA-521-1

DSA-3600-1

MGASA-2016-0220

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_1552-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_1557-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1

RHSA-2016:1217

RHSA-2016_1217

SUSE-SU-2016:1691-1

SUSE-SU-2016:1799-1

SUSE-SU-2016:2061-1

USN-2993-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Firefox

Firefox Esr

Red Hat

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 2124

• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2822 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-51 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2818 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-esr · Vendor Advisory
• http://mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-52.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0220.html · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2822 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2819 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2822 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2831 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2828 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00055.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-58 · Vendor Advisory