CVE-2016-2831 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:H

Reference

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

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

CHANGED

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

LOW

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

8.8

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