CVE-2016-2820 (GCVE-0-2016-2820)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-04-30 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 23:32
VLAI?
Summary
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.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035692 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-0… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2936-2 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2936-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2936-3 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfs… x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=870870 x_refsource_CONFIRM
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