CVE-2017-5393

medium

Description

The "mozAddonManager" allows for the installation of extensions from the CDN for addons.mozilla.org, a publicly accessible site. This could allow malicious extensions to install additional extensions from the CDN in combination with an XSS attack on Mozilla AMO sites. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 51.

References

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-01/

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1309282

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037693

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95763

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-06-11

Updated: 2018-08-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium