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CVE-2016-2820 Details

Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: [email protected]CVSS-B:4.3 MEDIUMVector:CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URLSource(s)Tag(s)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00005.html CVE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00038.html CVE
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=870870 CVE
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15 CVE
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-48.html CVEVendor Advisory

see all 18 references

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-284Improper Access Control[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions
mozilla firefox
<= 45.0.2

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.

Change History

9 change records found show changes

QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2016-2820
NVD Published Date:
Apr 30, 2016
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 17, 2026
Source:
[email protected]
CVE-2016-2820 Details - Not Deferred