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MFSA2017-01 Firefox: Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 51 (CVE-2017-5393)

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MFSA2017-01 Firefox: Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 51 (CVE-2017-5393)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
06/11/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
07/12/2018
Modified
08/09/2018

Description

The "mozAddonManager" allows for the installation of extensions from the CDN for addons.mozilla.org, a publicly accessible site. This could allow malicious extensions to install additional extensions from the CDN in combination with an XSS attack on Mozilla AMO sites. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 51.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-51_0

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