CVE-2016-2816

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2016-2816  

Mozilla Firefox before 46.0 allows remote attackers to bypass the Content Security Policy (CSP) protection mechanism via the multipart/x-mixed-replace content type.

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Mozilla Firefox before 46.0 allows remote attackers to bypass the Content Security Policy (CSP) protection mechanism via the multipart/x-mixed-replace content type.

Find out more about CVE-2016-2816 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 4.3
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact None

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 firefox Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 firefox Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 firefox Not affected

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Muneaki Nishimura as the original reporter.

External References