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MFSA2016-13 Firefox: Same-origin-policy violation using Service Workers with plugins (CVE-2016-1949)

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MFSA2016-13 Firefox: Same-origin-policy violation using Service Workers with plugins (CVE-2016-1949)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/11/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/12/2016
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 44.0.2 does not properly restrict the interaction between Service Workers and plugins, which allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy via a crafted web site that triggers spoofed responses to requests that use NPAPI, as demonstrated by a request for a crossdomain.xml file.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-44_0_2

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