CVE-2016-1949

MEDIUM

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 44.0.2 does not properly restrict the interaction between Service Workers and plugins, which allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy via a crafted web site that triggers spoofed responses to requests that use NPAPI, as demonstrated by a request for a crossdomain.xml file.

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00102.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00142.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-13.html

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035007

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2893-1

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1245724

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2016-02-13

Updated: 2016-12-06

Type: CWE-264

Risk Information

CVSS v2.0

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Impact Score: 6.4

Exploitability Score: 8.6

Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS v3.0

Base Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Impact Score: 5.9

Exploitability Score: 2.8

Severity: HIGH