PT-2016-6347 · Mozilla+5 · Firefox Esr+7

Yuyang Zhou · Published 2016-11-16 · Updated 2024-12-12 · CVE-2016-5291

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Firefox versions prior to 50 Firefox ESR versions prior to 45.5 Thunderbird versions prior to 45.5

Description The issue is related to a same-origin policy bypass that can be exploited using local shortcut files, allowing the loading of arbitrary local content from disk.

Recommendations For Firefox versions prior to 50, update to version 50 or later. For Firefox ESR versions prior to 45.5, update to version 45.5 or later. For Thunderbird versions prior to 45.5, update to version 45.5 or later.

Exploit

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-2307

ALT-PU-2016-2321

ALT-PU-2017-1578

CESA-2016_2780

CVE-2016-5291

DLA-730-1

DLA-752-1

DSA-3716-1

DSA-3730-1

MGASA-2016-0379

MGASA-2016-0409

MGASA-2017-0323

OPENSUSE-SU-2016:3019-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_2861-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_3011-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10230-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1

RHSA-2016:2780

RHSA-2016_2780

SUSE-SU-2016:3014-1

SUSE-SU-2016:3080-1

SUSE-SU-2016:3105-1

USN-3124-1

USN-3141-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Firefox

Firefox Esr

Red Hat

Suse

Thunderbird

Ubuntu

References · 2167

• 🔥 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1292159 · Exploit
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/45.5.0/releasenotes · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10230-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9064 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-esr · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:3080-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-93 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-90 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9068 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9070 · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2780.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2016-0379 · Vendor Advisory