CVE-2016-9900 — Sensitive Information Exposure in Mozilla Firefox

CWE-254CWE-200 — Sensitive Information Exposure13 documents8 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
OSV9.8
EPSS
1.0%
top 22.85%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
10
Mozilla FirefoxMozilla Firefox ESRMozilla Thunderbird+7 more
Timeline
PublishedJun 11
Latest updateMay 14

Description

External resources that should be blocked when loaded by SVG images can bypass security restrictions through the use of "data:" URLs. This could allow for cross-domain data leakage. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 50.1, Firefox ESR < 45.6, and Thunderbird < 45.6.

CVSS vector

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

Affected Packages10 packages

▶CVEListV5mozilla/firefoxunspecified — 50.1
▶NVDmozilla/firefox< 50.1+1
▶CVEListV5mozilla/firefox_esrunspecified — 45.6
▶Ubuntumozilla/firefox< 50.1.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+1
▶CVEListV5mozilla/thunderbirdunspecified — 45.6

Also affects: Debian Linux 9.0, Enterprise Linux 5.0, 6.0, 7.0, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5

Patches

Patch: bugzilla.mozilla.org ↗Patch: bugzilla.mozilla.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

5
GHSA
GHSA-5758-qh2j-cmj3: External resources that should be blocked when loaded by SVG images can bypass security restrictions through the use of "data:" URLs↗2022-05-14
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OSV
CVE-2016-9900: External resources that should be blocked when loaded by SVG images can bypass security restrictions through the use of "data:" URLs↗2018-06-11
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CVEList
CVE-2016-9900: External resources that should be blocked when loaded by SVG images can bypass security restrictions through the use of "data:" URLs↗2018-06-11
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OSV
thunderbird vulnerabilities↗2017-01-28
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OSV
firefox vulnerabilities↗2016-12-13
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📋Vendor Advisories

5
Red Hat
kernel: Info leak in uninitialized structure ethtool_wolinfo in ethtool_get_wol()↗2017-07-25
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Ubuntu
Thunderbird vulnerabilities↗2017-01-28
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Red Hat
Mozilla: Restricted external resources can be loaded by SVG images through data URLs (MFSA 2016-94, MFSA 2016-95)↗2016-12-14
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Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities↗2016-12-13
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Debian
CVE-2016-9900: firefox - External resources that should be blocked when loaded by SVG images can bypass s...↗2016
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2014-9900 kernel: Info leak in uninitialized structure ethtool_wolinfo in ethtool_get_wol()↗2017-08-14
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Bugzilla
CVE-2016-9900 Mozilla: Restricted external resources can be loaded by SVG images through data URLs (MFSA 2016-94, MFSA 2016-95)↗2016-12-13
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