CVE-2016-5283

Publication date 22 September 2016

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Mozilla Firefox before 49.0 allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy via a crafted fragment identifier in the SRC attribute of an IFRAME element, leading to insufficient restrictions on link-color information after a document is resized.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
firefox	16.10 yakkety	Fixed 49.0+build4-0ubuntu2
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 49.0+build4-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 49.0+build4-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed 49.0+build4-0ubuntu0.12.04.1
thunderbird	16.10 yakkety	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Not affected

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.8 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)