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CVE-2016-2831 Detail

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.

Source:  MITRE
Description Last Modified:  06/13/2016

Impact

CVSS v3.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 8.8 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:H (V3 legend)
Impact Score: 5.3
Exploitability Score: 2.8

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope (S): Changed
Confidentiality (C): Low
Integrity (I): Low
Availability (A): High

CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.8 MEDIUM
Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P) (V2 legend)
Impact Subscore: 4.9
Exploitability Subscore: 8.6

Access Vector (AV): Network
Access Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (AU): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): Partial
Availability (A): Partial
Additional Information:
Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Allows unauthorized modification
Allows disruption of service

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

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2016-2831
NVD Published Date:
06/13/2016
NVD Last Modified:
10/30/2018