CVE-2016-5291 Information

Description

A same-origin policy bypass with local shortcut files to load arbitrary local content from disk. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird 45.5 Firefox ESR 45.5 and Firefox 50.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2780.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94336 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037298 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1292159 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15 https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3730 https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-89/ https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-90/ https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-93/

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

5.5