CVE-2016-2816

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2016-04-26
Bugzilla:
1330282: CVE-2016-2816 Mozilla: CSP not applied to pages sent with multipart/x-mixed-replace (MFSA 2016-45)

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Mozilla Firefox before 46.0 allows remote attackers to bypass the Content Security Policy (CSP) protection mechanism via the multipart/x-mixed-replace content type.

Find out more about CVE-2016-2816 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

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:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact None

Find out more about Red Hat support for the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 firefox Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 firefox 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 Muneaki Nishimura as the original reporter.

External References

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