High severity · published Jun 13, 2016
CVE-2016-2821
Use-after-free vulnerability in the mozilla::dom::Element class in Mozilla Firefox before 47.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.2, when contenteditable mode is enabled, allows…
7.5
CVSS
2.8%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Use-after-free vulnerability in the mozilla::dom::Element class in Mozilla Firefox before 47.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.2, when contenteditable mode is enabled, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) by triggering deletion of DOM elements that were created in the editor.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.8% · higher than 86% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
FI
Firefox · Mozilla
through 46.0.1; 45.1.0; 45.1.1 · source: NVD
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
8.0 · source: NVD
LE
Leap · Opensuse
42.1 · source: NVD
OP
Opensuse · Opensuse
13.1; 13.2 · source: NVD
UL
Ubuntu Linux · Canonical
12.04; 14.04; 15.10; 16.04 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2821
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2821
lists.opensuse.org
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00014.html
lists.opensuse.org
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00016.html
lists.opensuse.org
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00055.html
www.debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3600
Vendor Advisory
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-51.html
www.oracle.com
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html
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