CVE-2016-1954

Aliases:DEBIAN-CVE-2016-1954
Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 18
Modified
Published: 13 Mar 2016, 18:00
Last modified:05 Aug 2024, 23:10

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
36/100
CVSS Score
8.8 HIGH
v3.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
2.33% LOW
2% probability -0.38%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

13 Mar 2016, 18:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
05 Aug 2024, 23:10
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

The nsCSPContext::SendReports function in dom/security/nsCSPContext.cpp in Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.7 does not prevent use of a non-HTTP report-uri for a Content Security Policy (CSP) violation report, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (data overwrite) or possibly gain privileges by specifying a URL of a local file.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.0•HIGH•Score: 8.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 6.8AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 2.33%• Percentile: 83%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-264•Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

    Weaknesses in this category are related to the management of permissions, privileges, and other security features that are used to perform access control.

Affected Systems

  • debian•firefox-esr

    < 45.0esr-1 | < 45.0esr-1 | < 45.0esr-1 | < 45.0esr-1

  • mozilla•firefox

    ≤ 44.0.2 | 38.0 | 38.0.1 | 38.0.5 | 38.1.0 | 38.1.1 | 38.2.0 | 38.2.1 | 38.3.0 | 38.4.0 | 38.5.0 | 38.5.1 | 38.6.0 | 38.6.1

  • mozilla•thunderbird

    ≤ 38.6.0

  • novell•suse_package_hub_for_suse_linux_enterprise

    12

  • opensuse•leap

    42.1

  • opensuse•opensuse

    13.1 | 13.2

  • oracle•linux

    5.0 | 6 | 7

References (24)