CVE-2016-5265 Information

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.3 allow user-assisted remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and conduct Universal XSS (UXSS) attacks or read arbitrary files by arranging for the presence of a crafted HTML document and a crafted shortcut file in the same local directory.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00004.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00029.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1551.html http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3640 http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-80.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92258 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036508 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3044-1 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1278013 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

CHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

5.5