CVE-2016-5284
Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird Preloaded Public Key Pinning Expired Date Insecurity
Description
Mozilla Firefox before 49.0, Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.4, and Thunderbird < 45.4 rely on unintended expiration dates for Preloaded Public Key Pinning, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof add-on updates by leveraging possession of an X.509 server certificate for addons.mozilla.org signed by an arbitrary built-in Certification Authority.
INFO
Published Date :
Sept. 22, 2016, 10:59 p.m.
Last Modified :
Oct. 21, 2024, 1:55 p.m.
Source :
[email protected]
Remotely Exploitable :
Yes !
Impact Score :
4.0
Exploitability Score :
2.8
Public PoC/Exploit Available at Github
CVE-2016-5284 has a 1 public PoC/Exploit
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CVE-2016-5284
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CPE Deprecation Remap by [email protected]
Oct. 21, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value Changed CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:45.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* OR *cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:45.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* -
CPE Deprecation Remap by [email protected]
Oct. 21, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value Changed CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:45.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* OR *cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:45.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* -
CPE Deprecation Remap by [email protected]
Oct. 21, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value Changed CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:45.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* OR *cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:45.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* -
CPE Deprecation Remap by [email protected]
Oct. 21, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value Changed CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:45.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* OR *cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:45.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* -
CPE Deprecation Remap by [email protected]
Oct. 21, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value Changed CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:45.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* OR *cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:45.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
May. 14, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value -
CPE Deprecation Remap by [email protected]
Oct. 30, 2018
Action Type Old Value New Value Changed CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:45.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* OR *cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:45.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Jun. 12, 2018
Action Type Old Value New Value Changed Description Mozilla Firefox before 49.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.4 rely on unintended expiration dates for Preloaded Public Key Pinning, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof add-on updates by leveraging possession of an X.509 server certificate for addons.mozilla.org signed by an arbitrary built-in Certification Authority. Mozilla Firefox before 49.0, Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.4, and Thunderbird < 45.4 rely on unintended expiration dates for Preloaded Public Key Pinning, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof add-on updates by leveraging possession of an X.509 server certificate for addons.mozilla.org signed by an arbitrary built-in Certification Authority. Added Reference https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-88/ [No Types Assigned] Added Reference https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-86/ [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Jan. 05, 2018
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1912.html [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Jul. 30, 2017
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036852 [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Jul. 01, 2017
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15 [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Jan. 18, 2017
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3674 [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Nov. 28, 2016
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93049 [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Oct. 27, 2016
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2016-3090545.html -
Modified Analysis by [email protected]
Sep. 23, 2016
Action Type Old Value New Value Added CPE Configuration Configuration 1 OR *cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:45.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:45.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:45.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:45.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:45.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:45.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:48.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* (and previous) Added CVSS V2 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N) Added CVSS V3 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N Changed Reference Type https://hackernoon.com/tor-browser-exposed-anti-privacy-implantation-at-mass-scale-bd68e9eb1e95 No Types Assigned https://hackernoon.com/tor-browser-exposed-anti-privacy-implantation-at-mass-scale-bd68e9eb1e95 Technical Description Changed Reference Type https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1303127 No Types Assigned https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1303127 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry, Issue Tracking Changed Reference Type http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-85.html No Types Assigned http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-85.html Release Notes Changed Reference Type http://seclists.org/dailydave/2016/q3/51 No Types Assigned http://seclists.org/dailydave/2016/q3/51 Third Party Advisory Changed Reference Type https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2016/09/16/update-on-add-on-pinning-vulnerability/ No Types Assigned https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2016/09/16/update-on-add-on-pinning-vulnerability/ Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry Added CWE CWE-20 -
Initial Analysis by [email protected]
Sep. 23, 2016
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0.24 }} 0.00%
score
0.60201
percentile