CVE-2016-2817

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2817
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-2817.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-2817
Downstream
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Published
2016-04-30T17:59:14.647Z
Modified
2026-03-15T21:50:28.116924Z
Severity
  • 5.4 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Git /

Affected ranges

Database specific

unresolved_ranges 
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "45.0.2"
            }
        ]
    }
]
source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-2817.json"