CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-9901

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2018-06-11 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-06-11
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

HTML tags received from the Pocket server will be processed without sanitization and any JavaScript code executed will be run in the "about:pocket-saved" (unprivileged) page, giving it access to Pocket's messaging API through HTML injection. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 45.6 and Firefox < 50.1.

Affected configurations

• redhat enterprise linux aus 7.3 • redhat enterprise linux aus 7.4 • redhat enterprise linux desktop 5.0 • redhat enterprise linux desktop 6.0 • redhat enterprise linux desktop 7.0 • redhat enterprise linux eus 7.3 • redhat enterprise linux eus 7.4 • redhat enterprise linux eus 7.5 • redhat enterprise linux server 5.0 • redhat enterprise linux server 6.0 • redhat enterprise linux server 7.0 • redhat enterprise linux workstation 5.0 • redhat enterprise linux workstation 6.0 • redhat enterprise linux workstation 7.0 • mozilla firefox (< 45.6.0) • mozilla firefox (< 50.1)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References