CVE-2016-1954

Severity

68%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

106%

The nsCSPContext::SendReports function in dom/security/nsCSPContext.cpp in Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.7 does not prevent use of a non-HTTP report-uri for a Content Security Policy (CSP) violation report, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (data overwrite) or possibly gain privileges by specifying a URL of a local file.

The nsCSPContext::SendReports function in dom/security/nsCSPContext.cpp in Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.7 does not prevent use of a non-HTTP report-uri for a Content Security Policy (CSP) violation report, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (data overwrite) or possibly gain privileges by specifying a URL of a local file.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 8.8. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.8. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 8 years ago

2016-03-13 18:59:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2019-12-27 16:08:00

Affected Software

Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla Firefox ESR 38.0

38.0

Mozilla Firefox ESR 38.0.1

38.0.1

Mozilla Firefox ESR 38.0.5

38.0.5

Mozilla Firefox ESR 38.1.0

38.1.0

Mozilla Firefox ESR 38.1.1

38.1.1

Mozilla Firefox ESR 38.2.0

38.2.0

Mozilla Firefox ESR 38.2.1

38.2.1

Mozilla Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR) 38.3.0

38.3.0

Mozilla Firefox ESR 38.4.0

38.4.0

Mozilla Firefox ESR 38.5.0

38.5.0

Mozilla Firefox ESR 38.5.1

38.5.1

Mozilla Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR) 38.6.0

38.6.0

Mozilla Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR) 38.6.1

38.6.1

Mozilla Thunderbird

Novell SUSE Package Hub For SUSE Linux Enterprise 12

12

openSUSE Leap 42.1

42.1

OpenSUSE 13.1

13.1

OpenSUSE 13.2

13.2

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