CVE-2016-5283 — Improper Access Control in Firefox

CWE-284 — Improper Access Control8 documents7 sources
Severity
8.8HIGHNVD
OSV6.5
EPSS
0.3%
top 49.02%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
Mozilla FirefoxDebian FirefoxDebian Firefox-esr
Timeline
PublishedSep 22
Latest updateMay 17

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 49.0 allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy via a crafted fragment identifier in the SRC attribute of an IFRAME element, leading to insufficient restrictions on link-color information after a document is resized.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages4 packages

▶Ubuntumozilla/firefox< 49.0+build4-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+1
▶NVDmozilla/firefox48.0.2
▶debiandebian/firefox< firefox 49.0-1 (sid)
▶debiandebian/firefox-esr< firefox 49.0-1 (sid)

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-mf89-9mq2-mmp2: Mozilla Firefox before 49↗2022-05-17
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OSV
CVE-2016-5283: Mozilla Firefox before 49↗2016-09-22
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OSV
firefox vulnerabilities↗2016-09-22
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities↗2016-09-22
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Red Hat
Mozilla: iframe src fragment timing attack can reveal cross-origin data (MFSA 2016-85)↗2016-09-20
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Debian
CVE-2016-5283: firefox - Mozilla Firefox before 49.0 allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Po...↗2016
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-5283 Mozilla: iframe src fragment timing attack can reveal cross-origin data (MFSA 2016-85)↗2016-09-20
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