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MFSA2016-54 Firefox: Partial same-origin-policy through setting location.host through data URI (CVE-2016-2825)

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MFSA2016-54 Firefox: Partial same-origin-policy through setting location.host through data URI (CVE-2016-2825)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
06/07/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
06/08/2016
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 47.0 allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and modify the location.host property via an invalid data: URL.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-47_0

References

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