CVE-2016-2831
published 2016-06-13CVE-2016-2831: Mozilla Firefox before 47.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.2 do not ensure that the user approves the fullscreen and pointerlock settings, which allows remote…
PriorityP433high8.8CVSS 3.0
AVNACLPRNUIRSCCLILAH
EPSS
1.35%
68.1th percentile
Mozilla Firefox before 47.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.2 do not ensure that the user approves the fullscreen and pointerlock settings, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (UI outage), or conduct clickjacking or spoofing attacks, via a crafted web site.
Affected
15 ranges
| Vendor | Product | Version range | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | — | — |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | — | — |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | — | — |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | — | — |
| debian | debian_linux | — | — |
| debian | firefox | < firefox 47.0-1 (sid) | firefox 47.0-1 (sid) |
| debian | firefox-esr | < firefox 47.0-1 (sid) | firefox 47.0-1 (sid) |
| mozilla | firefox | <= 46.0.1 | — |
| mozilla | firefox | — | — |
| mozilla | firefox | — | — |
| mozilla | firefox | >= 0 < 47.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 | 47.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 |
| mozilla | firefox | >= 0 < 47.0+build3-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 | 47.0+build3-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 |
| opensuse | leap | — | — |
| opensuse | opensuse | — | — |
| opensuse | opensuse | — | — |
CVSS provenance
nvdv3.08.8HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:H
nvdv2.05.8MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
osv8.8HIGH
vendor_debian8.8HIGH
vendor_redhat8.8HIGH
vendor_ubuntu8.8HIGH
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GHSA
GHSA-v53r-6j66-5ch8: Mozilla Firefox before 47
ghsa_unreviewed·2022-05-14
CVE-2016-2831 [HIGH] GHSA-v53r-6j66-5ch8: Mozilla Firefox before 47
Mozilla Firefox before 47.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.2 do not ensure that the user approves the fullscreen and pointerlock settings, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (UI outage), or conduct clickjacking or spoofing attacks, via a crafted web site.
OSV
CVE-2016-2831: Mozilla Firefox before 47
osv·2016-06-13·CVSS 8.8
CVE-2016-2831 [HIGH] CVE-2016-2831: Mozilla Firefox before 47
Mozilla Firefox before 47.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.2 do not ensure that the user approves the fullscreen and pointerlock settings, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (UI outage), or conduct clickjacking or spoofing attacks, via a crafted web site.
OSV
firefox vulnerabilities
osv·2016-06-09·CVSS 8.8
CVE-2016-2815 [HIGH] firefox vulnerabilities
firefox vulnerabilities
Christian Holler, Gary Kwong, Jesse Ruderman, Tyson Smith, Timothy Nikkel,
Sylvestre Ledru, Julian Seward, Olli Pettay, Karl Tomlinson, Christoph
Diehl, Julian Hector, Jan de Mooij, Mats Palmgren, and Tooru Fujisawa
discovered multiple memory safety issues in Firefox. If a user were
tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could
potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via application
crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-2815, CVE-2016-2818)
A buffer overflow was discovered when parsing HTML5 fragments in some
circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted
website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of
service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-28
Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities
vendor_ubuntu·2016-06-09·CVSS 8.8
CVE-2016-2815 [HIGH] Firefox vulnerabilities
Title: Firefox vulnerabilities
Summary: Firefox could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it
opened a malicious website.
Christian Holler, Gary Kwong, Jesse Ruderman, Tyson Smith, Timothy Nikkel,
Sylvestre Ledru, Julian Seward, Olli Pettay, Karl Tomlinson, Christoph
Diehl, Julian Hector, Jan de Mooij, Mats Palmgren, and Tooru Fujisawa
discovered multiple memory safety issues in Firefox. If a user were
tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could
potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via application
crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-2815, CVE-2016-2818)
A buffer overflow was discovered when parsing HTML5 fragments in some
circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted
website, an attacker could pote
Red Hat
Mozilla: Entering fullscreen and persistent pointerlock without user permission (MFSA 2016-58)
vendor_redhat·2016-06-09·CVSS 8.8
CVE-2016-2831 [HIGH] Mozilla: Entering fullscreen and persistent pointerlock without user permission (MFSA 2016-58)
Mozilla: Entering fullscreen and persistent pointerlock without user permission (MFSA 2016-58)
Mozilla Firefox before 47.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.2 do not ensure that the user approves the fullscreen and pointerlock settings, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (UI outage), or conduct clickjacking or spoofing attacks, via a crafted web site.
Package: thunderbird (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5) - Not affected
Package: thunderbird (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6) - Not affected
Package: thunderbird (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7) - Not affected
Debian
CVE-2016-2831: firefox - Mozilla Firefox before 47.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.2 do not ensure that ...
vendor_debian·2016·CVSS 8.8
CVE-2016-2831 [HIGH] CVE-2016-2831: firefox - Mozilla Firefox before 47.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.2 do not ensure that ...
Mozilla Firefox before 47.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.2 do not ensure that the user approves the fullscreen and pointerlock settings, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (UI outage), or conduct clickjacking or spoofing attacks, via a crafted web site.
Scope: local
sid: resolved (fixed in 47.0-1)
No detection rules found.
No public exploits indexed.
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00014.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00016.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00055.htmlhttp://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3600http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-58.htmlhttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.htmlhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91075http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036057http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2993-1https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1217https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1261933http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00014.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00016.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00055.htmlhttp://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3600http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-58.htmlhttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.htmlhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91075http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036057http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2993-1https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1217https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1261933
2016-06-13
Published