CVE-2016-2829
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 6.5 · Improper access control
6.5CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
Mozilla Firefox before 47.0 allows remote attackers to spoof permission notifications via a crafted web site that rapidly triggers permission requests, as demonstrated by the microphone permission or the geolocation permission.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionRequired
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactHigh
Availability impactNone
Exploit probability (EPSS)1%
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-57.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00014.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00016.html
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036057
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2993-1
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1248329