CVE-2016-5283 - Improper Access Control

Severity

68%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

106%

Mozilla Firefox before 49.0 allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy via a crafted fragment identifier in the SRC attribute of an IFRAME element, leading to insufficient restrictions on link-color information after a document is resized.

Mozilla Firefox before 49.0 allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy via a crafted fragment identifier in the SRC attribute of an IFRAME element, leading to insufficient restrictions on link-color information after a document is resized.

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

2016-09-22 22:59:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-30 01:29:00

Affected Software

Mozilla Firefox

References

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-85.html

Vendor Advisory

93052

1036852

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=928187

Issue Tracking

GLSA-201701-15

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