Security Advisory

CVE-2016-2817

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-04-30 17:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-05 23:32:21
Assigner mozilla
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

The WebExtension sandbox feature in browser/components/extensions/ext-tabs.js in Mozilla Firefox before 46.0 does not properly restrict principal inheritance during chrome.tabs.create and chrome.tabs.update API calls, which allows remote attackers to conduct Universal XSS (UXSS) attacks via a crafted extension that accesses a (1) javascript: or (2) data: URL.