CVE-2016-5265

CVE Details

Release Date:	2016-08-02
Impact:	Moderate	What is this?

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.3 allowuser-assisted remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy, and conduct Universal XSS (UXSS) attacks or read arbitrary files, by arranging for the presence of a crafted HTML document and a crafted shortcut file in the same local directory.

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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	4.3
Vector String:	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Network
Attack Complexity:	Medium
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	Partial
Integrity Impact:	None
Availability Impact:	None

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 5 (firefox)	ELSA-2016-1551	2016-08-03
Oracle Linux version 6 (firefox)	ELSA-2016-1551	2016-08-03
Oracle Linux version 7 (firefox)	ELSA-2016-1551	2016-08-03