PT-2016-7874 · Mozilla+5 · Firefox+5

Wladimir Palant · Published 2016-12-13 · Updated 2024-12-12 · CVE-2016-9902

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

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

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

Description The Pocket toolbar button in Firefox does not verify the origin of incoming events, allowing content from other origins to fire events and inject content and commands into the Pocket context. This issue does not affect users with e10s enabled.

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

Exploit

Fix

Origin Validation Error

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-346

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-2446

ALT-PU-2017-1578

CESA-2016_2946

CESA-2016_2973

CVE-2016-9902

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://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1320039 · Exploit
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9902 · Security Note
• 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://mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-esr · 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://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9902 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9895 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:3223-1 · Vendor Advisory