CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-2831

8.8 HIGH Published 2016-06-13 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗

Status: Modified
Published: 2016-06-13
Last modified: 2026-06-17
Assigner: [email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected]): 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected]): 5.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses: CWE-254, CWE-284

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 47.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.2 do not ensure that the user approves the fullscreen and pointerlock settings, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (UI outage), or conduct clickjacking or spoofing attacks, via a crafted web site.

Affected configurations

• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 14.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 15.10 • canonical ubuntu linux 16.04 • mozilla firefox 45.1.0 • mozilla firefox 45.1.1 • debian debian linux 8.0 • opensuse leap 42.1 • opensuse opensuse 13.1 • opensuse opensuse 13.2 • mozilla firefox (<= 46.0.1)

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

CWE-254

Weakness · CWE (1)

CWE-284 Improper Access Control weakness

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00014.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00016.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00055.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3600 Third Party Advisory
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-58.html Vendor Advisory
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html www.oracle.com
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91075 www.securityfocus.com
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036057 Third Party Advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2993-1 Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1217 Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1261933 Issue Tracking, Permissions Required
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00014.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00016.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00055.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3600 Third Party Advisory
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-58.html Vendor Advisory
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html www.oracle.com
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91075 www.securityfocus.com
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036057 Third Party Advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2993-1 Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1217 Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1261933 Issue Tracking, Permissions Required