CVE-2016-5268

Severity

43%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

48%

Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 does not properly set the LINKABLE and URI_SAFE_FOR_UNTRUSTED_CONTENT flags of about: URLs that are used for error pages, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct spoofing attacks via a crafted URL, as demonstrated by misleading text after an about:neterror?d= substring.

Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 does not properly set the LINKABLE and URI_SAFE_FOR_UNTRUSTED_CONTENT flags of about: URLs that are used for error pages, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct spoofing attacks via a crafted URL, as demonstrated by misleading text after an about:neterror?d= substring.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 4.3. 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:L/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

2016-08-05 01:59:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-08-16 01:29:00

Affected Software

Mozilla Firefox

References

openSUSE-SU-2016:1964

openSUSE-SU-2016:2026

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-83.html

Vendor Advisory

92260

1036508

USN-3044-1

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1253673

Issue Tracking, Permissions Required

GLSA-201701-15

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