CVE-2016-2831

Severity

57%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

81%

Mozilla Firefox before 47.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.2 do not ensure that the user approves the fullscreen and pointerlock settings, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (UI outage), or conduct clickjacking or spoofing attacks, via a crafted web site.

Mozilla Firefox before 47.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.2 do not ensure that the user approves the fullscreen and pointerlock settings, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (UI outage), or conduct clickjacking or spoofing attacks, via a crafted web site.

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:C/C:L/I:L/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5.8. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P).

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 Extended Support Release (ESR) 45.1.0

45.1.0

Mozilla Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR) 45.1.1

45.1.1

Debian Linux 8.0 (Jessie)

8.0

openSUSE Leap 42.1

42.1

OpenSUSE 13.1

13.1

OpenSUSE 13.2

13.2

Mozilla Firefox

References

openSUSE-SU-2016:1552

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory

openSUSE-SU-2016:1557

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory

SUSE-SU-2016:1691

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory

DSA-3600

Third Party Advisory

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-58.html

Vendor Advisory

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html

91075

1036057

Third Party Advisory

USN-2993-1

Third Party Advisory

RHSA-2016:1217

Third Party Advisory

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1261933

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