CVE-2016-2829 - Improper Access Control

Severity

43%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

48%

Mozilla Firefox before 47.0 allows remote attackers to spoof permission notifications via a crafted web site that rapidly triggers permission requests, as demonstrated by the microphone permission or the geolocation permission.

Mozilla Firefox before 47.0 allows remote attackers to spoof permission notifications via a crafted web site that rapidly triggers permission requests, as demonstrated by the microphone permission or the geolocation permission.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 6.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.3. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N).

Overview

First reported 8 years ago

2016-06-13 10:59:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-30 16:27:00

Affected Software

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.04 LTS

12.04

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 LTS (Long-Term Support)

14.04

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 15.10

15.10

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 LTS (Long-Term Support)

16.04

Mozilla Firefox

openSUSE Leap 42.1

42.1

OpenSUSE 13.1

13.1

OpenSUSE 13.2

13.2

References

openSUSE-SU-2016:1552

openSUSE-SU-2016:1557

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-57.html

Vendor Advisory

1036057

USN-2993-1

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1248329

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