CVE-2016-9073 — Mozilla Firefox vulnerability

CWE-2648 documents7 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
OSV9.8
EPSS
0.8%
top 25.80%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
Mozilla FirefoxDebian FirefoxDebian Firefox-esr
Timeline
PublishedJun 11
Latest updateMay 14

Description

WebExtensions can bypass security checks to load privileged URLs and potentially escape the WebExtension sandbox. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 50.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages5 packages

▶debiandebian/firefox< firefox 50.0-1 (sid)
▶CVEListV5mozilla/firefoxunspecified — 50
▶NVDmozilla/firefox< 50.0
▶debiandebian/firefox-esr< firefox 50.0-1 (sid)
▶Ubuntumozilla/firefox< 50.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.2+1

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-874r-f6v2-m748: WebExtensions can bypass security checks to load privileged URLs and potentially escape the WebExtension sandbox↗2022-05-14
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OSV
firefox vulnerabilities↗2016-11-19
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OSV
CVE-2016-9073: WebExtensions can bypass security checks to load privileged URLs and potentially escape the WebExtension sandbox↗2016-11-18
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities↗2016-11-19
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Red Hat
firefox: windows.create schema doesn't specify "format": "relativeUrl"↗2016-11-15
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Debian
CVE-2016-9073: firefox - WebExtensions can bypass security checks to load privileged URLs and potentially...↗2016
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-9073 firefox: windows.create schema doesn't specify "format": "relativeUrl"↗2016-11-18
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