vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2016-5284: Critical: firefox security update (RHSA-2016:1912)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Sep 21, 2016
Added
Oct 21, 2016
Modified
Jan 17, 2018

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 49.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.4 rely on unintended expiration dates for Preloaded Public Key Pinning, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof add-on updates by leveraging possession of an X.509 server certificate for addons.mozilla.org signed by an arbitrary built-in Certification Authority.

Solutions

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