CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-9073

Published: Jun 11, 2018 | Modified: Jul 30, 2018

CVSS 3.x

7.5

HIGH

Source:

NVD

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

CVSS 2.x

5 MEDIUM

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9073
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/264.html

WebExtensions can bypass security checks to load privileged URLs and potentially escape the WebExtension sandbox. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 50.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Firefox	Mozilla	*	50.0 (excluding)

References

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