Bug 1330285 (CVE-2016-2817) - CVE-2016-2817 Mozilla: Elevation of privilege with chrome.tabs.update API in web extensions (MFSA 2016-46)
Summary: CVE-2016-2817 Mozilla: Elevation of privilege with chrome.tabs.update API in ...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2016-2817
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1306172
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Reported: 2016-04-25 19:04 UTC by Siddharth Sharma
Modified: 2021-02-17 03:58 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-05-09 04:52:28 UTC
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Description Siddharth Sharma 2016-04-25 19:04:23 UTC 
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. 

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https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-46.html
Comment 1 Siddharth Sharma 2016-04-25 19:04:30 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Muneaki Nishimura
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