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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2017-5393): Firefox regression

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2017-5393): Firefox regression

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
01/24/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
01/28/2017
Modified
08/17/2018

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)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-firefox

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