CVE-2016-1967

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2016-03-08
Bugzilla:
1315776: CVE-2016-1967 Mozilla: Same-origin policy violation using perfomance.getEntries and history navigation with session restore (MFSA 2016-29)

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 does not properly restrict the availability of IFRAME Resource Timing API times, which allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and obtain sensitive information via crafted JavaScript code that leverages history.back and performance.getEntries calls after restoring a browser session. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-7207.

Find out more about CVE-2016-1967 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

This issue does not affect the version of firefox and thunderbird as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and 7.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 4.3
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact None

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 firefox Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 thunderbird Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 firefox Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 thunderbird Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 thunderbird Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 firefox Not affected

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Jordi Chancel as the original reporter.

External References

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