CVE-2016-2829
medium
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS v2
4.3
VIR risk
6.5
Description
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA
—
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-2829
Vendor advisory: security@mozilla.org — http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-57.html
Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2829.html
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| sles | affected | | |
| debian | sid | fixed | 47.0-1 |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 0 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 0 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 0 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 0 |
| ubuntu | 12.04 | affected | |
| ubuntu | 14.04 | affected | |
| ubuntu | 15.10 | affected | |
| ubuntu | 16.04 | affected | |
| suse | 42.1 | affected | |
| suse | 13.1 | affected | |
| suse | 13.2 | affected | |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| mozilla | firefox | {"endIncluding":"46.0.1"} | |
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2829.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00014.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00016.html
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-57.html
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036057
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2993-1
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1248329
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-2829
CWEs
CWE-284
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.