Bug 977384 (CVE-2016-2817) - VUL-0: CVE-2016-2817: MozillaFirefox: Elevation of privilege with chrome.tabs.update API in web extensions (MFSA 2016-46)
Summary: VUL-0: CVE-2016-2817: MozillaFirefox: Elevation of privilege with chrome.tabs...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: CVE-2016-2817
Product: SUSE Security Incidents
Classification: Novell Products
Component: Incidents (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: P3 - Medium : Normal
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Depends on: 977333
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Reported: 2016-04-27 08:54 UTC by Andreas Stieger
Modified: 2020-04-05 18:21 UTC (History)
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Description Andreas Stieger 2016-04-27 08:54:30 UTC 
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-46/

Security researcher Muneaki Nishimura (nishimunea) of Recruit Technologies Co., Ltd. reported that the chrome.tabs.update API for web extensions allows for navigation to javascript: URLs without additional permissions. This can used to elevate privilege for a universal cross-site scripting (XSS) attack by a malicious web extension. It can also be used to inject content into other extensions if they load content within browser tabs. 

chrome.tabs.update/create APIs should call checkLoadURI with DISALLOW_INHERIT_PRINCIPAL (CVE-2016-2817)

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1227462

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Comment 1 Swamp Workflow Management 2016-04-27 22:02:03 UTC 
bugbot adjusting priority
Comment 2 Andreas Stieger 2016-04-30 10:21:27 UTC 
openSUSE submitted, updates running
Comment 3 Swamp Workflow Management 2016-05-04 13:10:00 UTC 
openSUSE-SU-2016:1211-1: An update that fixes 10 vulnerabilities is now available.

Category: security (important)
Bug References: 977333,977373,977375,977376,977379,977381,977382,977384,977386,977388
CVE References: CVE-2016-2804,CVE-2016-2806,CVE-2016-2807,CVE-2016-2808,CVE-2016-2811,CVE-2016-2812,CVE-2016-2814,CVE-2016-2816,CVE-2016-2817,CVE-2016-2820
Sources used:
openSUSE Leap 42.1 (src):    MozillaFirefox-46.0-21.1, mozilla-nss-3.22.3-15.2
openSUSE 13.2 (src):    MozillaFirefox-46.0-68.1, mozilla-nss-3.22.3-31.1
Comment 4 Swamp Workflow Management 2016-05-06 14:09:22 UTC 
openSUSE-SU-2016:1251-1: An update that fixes 13 vulnerabilities is now available.

Category: security (moderate)
Bug References: 977333,977373,977375,977376,977377,977378,977379,977380,977381,977382,977384,977386,977388
CVE References: CVE-2016-2804,CVE-2016-2806,CVE-2016-2807,CVE-2016-2808,CVE-2016-2809,CVE-2016-2810,CVE-2016-2811,CVE-2016-2812,CVE-2016-2813,CVE-2016-2814,CVE-2016-2816,CVE-2016-2817,CVE-2016-2820
Sources used:
openSUSE 13.1 (src):    MozillaFirefox-46.0-113.2, mozilla-nss-3.22.3-77.1
Comment 5 Marcus Meissner 2016-11-18 20:00:46 UTC 
released