CVE-2016-2817

Description

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.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1227462

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2936-3

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2936-2

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2936-1

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035692

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-46.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00038.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00005.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3