Vulnerabilities > CVE-2016-2813 - Information Exposure vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
MEDIUM Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
NONE Summary
Mozilla Firefox before 46.0 on Android does not properly restrict JavaScript access to orientation and motion data, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information about a device's physical environment, and possibly discover PIN values, via a crafted web site, a similar issue to CVE-2016-1780.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Subverting Environment Variable Values The attacker directly or indirectly modifies environment variables used by or controlling the target software. The attacker's goal is to cause the target software to deviate from its expected operation in a manner that benefits the attacker.
- Footprinting An attacker engages in probing and exploration activity to identify constituents and properties of the target. Footprinting is a general term to describe a variety of information gathering techniques, often used by attackers in preparation for some attack. It consists of using tools to learn as much as possible about the composition, configuration, and security mechanisms of the targeted application, system or network. Information that might be collected during a footprinting effort could include open ports, applications and their versions, network topology, and similar information. While footprinting is not intended to be damaging (although certain activities, such as network scans, can sometimes cause disruptions to vulnerable applications inadvertently) it may often pave the way for more damaging attacks.
- Exploiting Trust in Client (aka Make the Client Invisible) An attack of this type exploits a programs' vulnerabilities in client/server communication channel authentication and data integrity. It leverages the implicit trust a server places in the client, or more importantly, that which the server believes is the client. An attacker executes this type of attack by placing themselves in the communication channel between client and server such that communication directly to the server is possible where the server believes it is communicating only with a valid client. There are numerous variations of this type of attack.
- Browser Fingerprinting An attacker carefully crafts small snippets of Java Script to efficiently detect the type of browser the potential victim is using. Many web-based attacks need prior knowledge of the web browser including the version of browser to ensure successful exploitation of a vulnerability. Having this knowledge allows an attacker to target the victim with attacks that specifically exploit known or zero day weaknesses in the type and version of the browser used by the victim. Automating this process via Java Script as a part of the same delivery system used to exploit the browser is considered more efficient as the attacker can supply a browser fingerprinting method and integrate it with exploit code, all contained in Java Script and in response to the same web page request by the browser.
- Session Credential Falsification through Prediction This attack targets predictable session ID in order to gain privileges. The attacker can predict the session ID used during a transaction to perform spoofing and session hijacking.
Nessus
NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2016-566.NASL description This update to Mozilla Firefox 46.0 fixes several security issues and bugs (boo#977333). The following vulnerabilities were fixed : - CVE-2016-2804: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards - MFSA 2016-39 (boo#977373) - CVE-2016-2806: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards - MFSA 2016-39 (boo#977375) - CVE-2016-2807: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards - MFSA 2016-39 (boo#977376) - CVE-2016-2808: Write to invalid HashMap entry through JavaScript.watch() - MFSA 2016-47 (boo#977386) - CVE-2016-2811: Use-after-free in Service Worker - MFSA 2016-42 (boo#977379) - CVE-2016-2812: Buffer overflow in Service Worker - MFSA 2016-42 (boo#977379) - CVE-2016-2814: Buffer overflow in libstagefright with CENC offsets - MFSA 2016-44 (boo#977381) - CVE-2016-2816: CSP not applied to pages sent with multipart/x-mixed-replace - MFSA 2016-45 (boo#977382) - CVE-2016-2817: Elevation of privilege with chrome.tabs.update API in web extensions - MFSA 2016-46 (boo#977384) - CVE-2016-2820: Firefox Health Reports could accept events from untrusted domains - MFSA 2016-48 (boo#977388) The following miscellaneous changes are included : - Improved security of the JavaScript Just In Time (JIT) Compiler - WebRTC fixes to improve performance and stability - Added support for document.elementsFromPoint - Added HKDF support for Web Crypto API The minimum requirements increased to NSPR 4.12 and NSS 3.22.3. Mozilla NSS was updated to 3.22.3 as a dependency for Mozilla Firefox 46.0, with the following changes : - Increase compatibility of TLS extended master secret, don last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2016-05-12 plugin id 91069 published 2016-05-12 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/91069 title openSUSE Security Update : Firefox 46.0 (openSUSE-2016-566) (SWEET32) NASL family Gentoo Local Security Checks NASL id GENTOO_GLSA-201701-15.NASL description The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201701-15 (Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird: Multiple vulnerabilities) Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact : A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or cause a Denial of Service condition via multiple vectors. Workaround : There is no known workaround at this time. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 96276 published 2017-01-04 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/96276 title GLSA-201701-15 : Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird: Multiple vulnerabilities (SWEET32)
References
- http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2714650
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00038.html
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-43.html
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035692
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1197901
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15