CVE-2016-9902

CVE Details

Release Date:

2018-06-11

Description

The Pocket toolbar button, once activated, listens for events fired from it's own pages but does not verify the origin of incoming events. This allows content from other origins to fire events and inject content and commands into the Pocket context. Note: this issue does not affect users with e10s enabled. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 45.6 and Firefox < 50.1.

See more information about CVE-2016-9902 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v3.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v3.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	7.5	Base Metrics:	AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Access Vector:	Network	Attack Complexity:	Low
Privileges Required:	None	User Interaction:	None
Scope:	Unchanged	Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	High	Availability Impact:	None

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 5 (firefox)	ELSA-2016-2946	2016-12-14
Oracle Linux version 5 (thunderbird)	ELSA-2016-2973	2016-12-21
Oracle Linux version 6 (firefox)	ELSA-2016-2946	2016-12-14
Oracle Linux version 6 (thunderbird)	ELSA-2016-2973	2016-12-21
Oracle Linux version 7 (firefox)	ELSA-2016-2946	2016-12-14
Oracle Linux version 7 (thunderbird)	ELSA-2016-2973	2016-12-21

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