CVE-2016-9064
published 2018-06-11CVE-2016-9064: Add-on updates failed to verify that the add-on ID inside the signed package matched the ID of the add-on being updated. An attacker who could perform a…
PriorityP426medium5.9CVSS 3.0
AVNACHPRNUINSUCNIHAN
EPSS
1.03%
59.4th percentile
Add-on updates failed to verify that the add-on ID inside the signed package matched the ID of the add-on being updated. An attacker who could perform a man-in-the-middle attack on the user's connection to the update server and defeat the certificate pinning protection could provide a malicious signed add-on instead of a valid update. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 45.5 and Firefox < 50.
Affected
8 ranges
| Vendor | Product | Version range | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | firefox | < firefox 50.0-1 (sid) | firefox 50.0-1 (sid) |
| debian | firefox-esr | < firefox 50.0-1 (sid) | firefox 50.0-1 (sid) |
| mozilla | firefox | < 45.5.0 | 45.5.0 |
| mozilla | firefox | < 50.0 | 50.0 |
| mozilla | firefox | >= 0 < 50.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.2 | 50.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.2 |
| mozilla | firefox | >= 0 < 50.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.2 | 50.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.2 |
| mozilla | firefox | >= unspecified < 50 | 50 |
| mozilla | firefox_esr | >= unspecified < 45.5 | 45.5 |
CVSS provenance
nvdv3.05.9MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
nvdv2.04.3MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
osv9.8CRITICAL
vendor_ubuntu9.8CRITICAL
vendor_debian5.9MEDIUM
vendor_redhat5.9MEDIUM
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Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities
vendor_ubuntu·2016-11-19·CVSS 9.8
CVE-2016-5289 [CRITICAL] 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, Andrew McCreight, Dan Minor, Tyson Smith, Jon Coppeard,
Jan-Ivar Bruaroey, Jesse Ruderman, Markus Stange, Olli Pettay, Ehsan
Akhgari, Gary Kwong, Tooru Fujisawa, and Randell Jesup 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-2016-5289, CVE-2016-5290)
A same-origin policy bypass was discovered with local HTML files in some
circumstances. An attacker could potentially exploit this to obtain
sensitive information. (CVE-2016-5291)
A crash wa
Red Hat
Mozilla: Addons update must verify IDs match between current and new versions (MFSA 2016-89, MFSA 2016-90)
vendor_redhat·2016-11-16·CVSS 5.9
CVE-2016-9064 [MEDIUM] Mozilla: Addons update must verify IDs match between current and new versions (MFSA 2016-89, MFSA 2016-90)
Mozilla: Addons update must verify IDs match between current and new versions (MFSA 2016-89, MFSA 2016-90)
Add-on updates failed to verify that the add-on ID inside the signed package matched the ID of the add-on being updated. An attacker who could perform a man-in-the-middle attack on the user's connection to the update server and defeat the certificate pinning protection could provide a malicious signed add-on instead of a valid update. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 45.5 and Firefox < 50.
A flaw was found in the way Add-on update process was handled by Firefox. A Man-in-the-Middle attacker could use this flaw to install a malicious signed add-on update.
Package: thunderbird (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5) - Not affected
Package: thunderbird (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6) - Not
Debian
CVE-2016-9064: firefox - Add-on updates failed to verify that the add-on ID inside the signed package mat...
vendor_debian·2016·CVSS 5.9
CVE-2016-9064 [MEDIUM] CVE-2016-9064: firefox - Add-on updates failed to verify that the add-on ID inside the signed package mat...
Add-on updates failed to verify that the add-on ID inside the signed package matched the ID of the add-on being updated. An attacker who could perform a man-in-the-middle attack on the user's connection to the update server and defeat the certificate pinning protection could provide a malicious signed add-on instead of a valid update. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 45.5 and Firefox < 50.
Scope: local
sid: resolved (fixed in 50.0-1)
GHSA
GHSA-pc4v-68rv-24q5: Add-on updates failed to verify that the add-on ID inside the signed package matched the ID of the add-on being updated
ghsa_unreviewed·2022-05-14
CVE-2016-9064 [MEDIUM] CWE-295 GHSA-pc4v-68rv-24q5: Add-on updates failed to verify that the add-on ID inside the signed package matched the ID of the add-on being updated
Add-on updates failed to verify that the add-on ID inside the signed package matched the ID of the add-on being updated. An attacker who could perform a man-in-the-middle attack on the user's connection to the update server and defeat the certificate pinning protection could provide a malicious signed add-on instead of a valid update. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 45.5 and Firefox < 50.
OSV
CVE-2016-9064: Add-on updates failed to verify that the add-on ID inside the signed package matched the ID of the add-on being updated
osv·2018-06-11·CVSS 5.9
CVE-2016-9064 [MEDIUM] CVE-2016-9064: Add-on updates failed to verify that the add-on ID inside the signed package matched the ID of the add-on being updated
Add-on updates failed to verify that the add-on ID inside the signed package matched the ID of the add-on being updated. An attacker who could perform a man-in-the-middle attack on the user's connection to the update server and defeat the certificate pinning protection could provide a malicious signed add-on instead of a valid update. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 45.5 and Firefox < 50.
OSV
firefox vulnerabilities
osv·2016-11-19·CVSS 9.8
CVE-2016-5289 [CRITICAL] firefox vulnerabilities
firefox vulnerabilities
Christian Holler, Andrew McCreight, Dan Minor, Tyson Smith, Jon Coppeard,
Jan-Ivar Bruaroey, Jesse Ruderman, Markus Stange, Olli Pettay, Ehsan
Akhgari, Gary Kwong, Tooru Fujisawa, and Randell Jesup 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-2016-5289, CVE-2016-5290)
A same-origin policy bypass was discovered with local HTML files in some
circumstances. An attacker could potentially exploit this to obtain
sensitive information. (CVE-2016-5291)
A crash was discovered when parsing URLs in some circumstances. If a user
were tricked in to opening a specially crafted w
No detection rules found.
No public exploits indexed.
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2780.htmlhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94336http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037298https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1303418https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-89/https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-90/http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2780.htmlhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94336http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037298https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1303418https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-89/https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-90/
2018-06-11
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