CVE-2016-5284 (GCVE-0-2016-5284)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-09-22 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 00:53
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
7.4 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mozilla CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 38/100 over 546 records in the last 180 days details
References
Date Public
2016-09-20 00:00
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      "initial_release_date": "2016-09-20T00:00:00+00:00",
      "product_status:fixed": "203",
      "product_status:known_not_affected": "5",
      "source": "Red Hat CSAF VEX",
      "status": "final",
      "title": "Mozilla: Add-on update site certificate pin expiration (MFSA 2016-85, MFSA 2016-86)",
      "url": "https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2016/cve-2016-5284.json",
      "version": "3"
    }
  }
}



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