High severity · published Jun 11, 2018
CVE-2016-9902
The Pocket toolbar button, once activated, listens for events fired from it's own pages but does not verify the origin of incoming events
7.5
CVSS
1.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
The Pocket toolbar button, once activated, listens for events fired from it's own pages but does not verify the origin of incoming events. This allows content from other origins to fire events and inject content and commands into the Pocket context. Note: this issue does not affect users with e10s enabled. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 45.6 and Firefox < 50.1.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.3% · higher than 70% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
FI
Firefox · Mozilla
before 45.6.0; before 50.1 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Desktop · Redhat
5.0; 6.0; 7.0 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Server · Redhat
5.0; 6.0; 7.0 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Server Aus · Redhat
7.3; 7.4 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Server Eus · Redhat
7.3; 7.4; 7.5 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Workstation · Redhat
5.0; 6.0; 7.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9902
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9902
Third Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2946.html
Third Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2973.html
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94885
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037461
Exploit
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1320039
Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15
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