PT-2016-7873 · Mozilla+5 · Firefox+5

Wladimir Palant · Published 2016-12-13 · Updated 2024-12-12 · CVE-2016-9901

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

9.8

Critical

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Firefox ESR versions prior to 45.6 Firefox versions prior to 50.1

Description The issue allows HTML tags received from the Pocket server to be processed without sanitization, enabling any JavaScript code to be executed in the "about:pocket-saved" page. This gives the code access to Pocket's messaging API through HTML injection.

Recommendations For Firefox ESR versions prior to 45.6, update to version 45.6 or later. For Firefox versions prior to 50.1, update to version 50.1 or later.

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-2446

ALT-PU-2017-1578

CESA-2016_2946

CESA-2016_2973

CVE-2016-9901

DLA-743-1

DSA-3734-1

MGASA-2016-0420

MGASA-2017-0323

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_3184-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_3310-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1

RHSA-2016:2946

RHSA-2016:2973

RHSA-2016_2946

RHSA-2016_2973

SUSE-SU-2016:3210-1

SUSE-SU-2016:3222-1

SUSE-SU-2016:3223-1

USN-3155-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Firefox

Red Hat

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 2110

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9894 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9904 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0420.html · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9901 · Security Note
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-esr · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9901 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-9901 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:3222-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3734-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2016-0420 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9895 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:3223-1 · Vendor Advisory