PT-2017-16476 · Mozilla+3 · Firefox+3

Kris Maglione · Published 2017-01-24 · Updated 2024-12-12 · CVE-2017-5389

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.1

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Firefox versions prior to 51

Description The issue allows a malicious extension to install additional extensions without explicit user permission by modifying the CSP headers on sites with the appropriate permissions and using host requests to redirect script loads to a malicious site. This is achieved through the use of the "mozAddonManager" API.

Recommendations For versions prior to 51, update to a version that includes the fix for this issue to prevent malicious extensions from installing additional extensions without user permission.

Exploit

Fix

Open Redirect

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-601

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-1138

ALT-PU-2017-1578

CVE-2017-5389

MGASA-2017-0323

OPENSUSE-SU-2017_0358-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10600-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1

USN-3175-1

USN-3175-2

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Firefox

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 1906

• 🔥 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1308688 · Exploit
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5390 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5389 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5374 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5383 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5373 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5387 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-01 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5378 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5376 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3175-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2017-0323 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-94 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5388 · Vendor Advisory