CVE-2016-2813
Description
Mozilla Firefox before 46.0 on Android does not properly restrict JavaScript access to orientation and motion data, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information about a device's physical environment, and possibly discover PIN values, via a crafted web site, a similar issue to CVE-2016-1780.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 0 |
| sid | Fixed | 0 |
| forky | Fixed | 0 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 0 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 0 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| mozilla | firefox | {"endIncluding":"45.0.2"} | |
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2813.html
- http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2714650
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00038.html
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-43.html
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035692
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1197901
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-2813
CWEs
CWE-200
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.