CVE-2017-5393 — Cross-site Scripting in Mozilla Firefox

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting8 documents5 sources
Severity
6.1MEDIUMNVD
OSV9.8
EPSS
0.5%
top 35.57%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
Mozilla FirefoxDebian FirefoxDebian Firefox-esr
Timeline
PublishedJun 11
Latest updateMay 14

Description

The "mozAddonManager" allows for the installation of extensions from the CDN for addons.mozilla.org, a publicly accessible site. This could allow malicious extensions to install additional extensions from the CDN in combination with an XSS attack on Mozilla AMO sites. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 51.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 2.7

Affected Packages5 packages

▶CVEListV5mozilla/firefoxunspecified — 51
▶NVDmozilla/firefox< 51.0
▶Ubuntumozilla/firefox< 51.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+3
▶debiandebian/firefox< firefox 51.0-1 (sid)
▶debiandebian/firefox-esr< firefox 51.0-1 (sid)

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
GHSA
GHSA-q77m-7m77-g2rw: The "mozAddonManager" allows for the installation of extensions from the CDN for addons↗2022-05-14
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OSV
firefox regression↗2017-02-06
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OSV
firefox vulnerabilities↗2017-01-27
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OSV
CVE-2017-5393: The "mozAddonManager" allows for the installation of extensions from the CDN for addons↗2017-01-25
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
Firefox regression↗2017-02-06
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Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities↗2017-01-27
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Debian
CVE-2017-5393: firefox - The "mozAddonManager" allows for the installation of extensions from the CDN for...↗2017
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