CVE-2016-2817
The WebExtension sandbox feature in browser/components/extensions/ext-tabs.js in Mozilla Firefox before 46.0 does not properly restrict principal inheritance during chrome.tabs.create and chrome.tabs.update API calls, which allows remote attackers to conduct Universal XSS (UXSS) attacks via a crafted extension that accesses a (1) javascript: or (2) data: URL.
- Score
- CVSS 3.0 5.4 Medium
- Status
- Modified - security@mozilla.org
- Published
- 2016-04-30
- Last modified
- 2024-08-05
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Affected products
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00005.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00038.html
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-46.html
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035692
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2936-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2936-2
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2936-3
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1227462
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15
