CVE-2016-9075

EPSS 2.2%

Vexday Risk Score

3Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS —EPSS 2.2%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

11 Jun 2018Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

An issue where WebExtensions can use the mozAddonManager API to elevate privilege due to privileged pages being allowed in the permissions list. This allows a malicious extension to then install additional extensions without explicit user permission. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 50.

Affected products

Mozilla · Firefox

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References

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1295324 https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-89/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94337 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037298