CVE-2016-2820

medium

Description

The Firefox Health Reports (aka FHR or about:healthreport) feature in Mozilla Firefox before 46.0 does not properly restrict the origin of events, which makes it easier for remote attackers to modify sharing preferences by leveraging access to the remote-report IFRAME element.

References

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

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=870870

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/mfsa2016-48.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

Published: 2016-04-30

Updated: 2017-07-01

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.3

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

Severity: Medium