CVE-2016-1949
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.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 45.0esr-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 45.0-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 45.0esr-1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 45.0esr-1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 45.0esr-1 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| mozilla | firefox | {"endIncluding":"44.0.1"} | |
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00102.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00142.html
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-13.html
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035007
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2893-1
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1245724
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-1949
CWEs
CWE-264
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.