CVE-2016-9073
published 2018-06-11CVE-2016-9073: WebExtensions can bypass security checks to load privileged URLs and potentially escape the WebExtension sandbox. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 50.
PriorityP336high7.5CVSS 3.0
AVNACLPRNUINSUCNIHAN
EPSS
1.65%
73.7th percentile
WebExtensions can bypass security checks to load privileged URLs and potentially escape the WebExtension sandbox. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 50.
Affected
6 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 | < 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 |
CVSS provenance
nvdv3.07.5HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
nvdv2.05.0MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
osv9.8CRITICAL
vendor_ubuntu9.8CRITICAL
vendor_debian7.5HIGH
vendor_redhat7.5HIGH
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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
firefox: windows.create schema doesn't specify "format": "relativeUrl"
vendor_redhat·2016-11-15·CVSS 7.5
CVE-2016-9073 [HIGH] firefox: windows.create schema doesn't specify "format": "relativeUrl"
firefox: windows.create schema doesn't specify "format": "relativeUrl"
WebExtensions can bypass security checks to load privileged URLs and potentially escape the WebExtension sandbox. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 50.
Statement: This issue does not affect the version of firefox and thunderbird as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and 7.
Package: firefox (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5) - Not affected
Package: thunderbird (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5) - Not affected
Package: firefox (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6) - Not affected
Package: thunderbird (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6) - Not affected
Package: firefox (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7) - Not affected
Package: thunderbird (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7) - Not affected
Debian
CVE-2016-9073: firefox - WebExtensions can bypass security checks to load privileged URLs and potentially...
vendor_debian·2016·CVSS 7.5
CVE-2016-9073 [HIGH] CVE-2016-9073: firefox - WebExtensions can bypass security checks to load privileged URLs and potentially...
WebExtensions can bypass security checks to load privileged URLs and potentially escape the WebExtension sandbox. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 50.
Scope: local
sid: resolved (fixed in 50.0-1)
GHSA
GHSA-874r-f6v2-m748: WebExtensions can bypass security checks to load privileged URLs and potentially escape the WebExtension sandbox
ghsa_unreviewed·2022-05-14
CVE-2016-9073 [HIGH] GHSA-874r-f6v2-m748: WebExtensions can bypass security checks to load privileged URLs and potentially escape the WebExtension sandbox
WebExtensions can bypass security checks to load privileged URLs and potentially escape the WebExtension sandbox. This vulnerability affects 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
OSV
CVE-2016-9073: WebExtensions can bypass security checks to load privileged URLs and potentially escape the WebExtension sandbox
osv·2016-11-18·CVSS 7.5
CVE-2016-9073 [HIGH] CVE-2016-9073: WebExtensions can bypass security checks to load privileged URLs and potentially escape the WebExtension sandbox
WebExtensions can bypass security checks to load privileged URLs and potentially escape the WebExtension sandbox. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 50.
No detection rules found.
No public exploits indexed.
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94337http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037298https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1289273https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-89/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94337http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037298https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1289273https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-89/
2018-06-11
Published