PT-2016-7873

CVE-2016-9901

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Published

2016-12-13

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Updated

2024-12-12

Description by

CVSS 3.1
9.8
Critical
MetricsAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Firefox ESR versions prior to 45.6 Firefox versions prior to 50.1
Description The issue allows HTML tags received from the Pocket server to be processed without sanitization, enabling any JavaScript code to be executed in the "about:pocket-saved" page. This gives the code access to Pocket's messaging API through HTML injection.
Recommendations For Firefox ESR versions prior to 45.6, update to version 45.6 or later. For Firefox versions prior to 50.1, update to version 50.1 or later.
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Related identifiers
ALT-PU-2016-2446
ALT-PU-2017-1578
CESA-2016_2946
CESA-2016_2973
DLA-743-1
DSA-3734-1
MGASA-2016-0420
MGASA-2017-0323
OPENSUSE-SU-2016_3184-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2016_3310-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1
RHSA-2016:2946
RHSA-2016_2946
RHSA-2016:2973
RHSA-2016_2973
SUSE-SU-2016:3210-1
SUSE-SU-2016:3222-1
SUSE-SU-2016:3223-1
USN-3155-1
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