Bug 1330287 (CVE-2016-2820) - CVE-2016-2820 Mozilla: Firefox Health Reports could accept events from untrusted domains (MFSA 2016-48)
Summary: CVE-2016-2820 Mozilla: Firefox Health Reports could accept events from untrus...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2016-2820
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 19:09 UTC by Siddharth Sharma
Modified: 2021-02-17 03:58 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-05-09 04:53:03 UTC
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Description Siddharth Sharma 2016-04-25 19:09:59 UTC 
Mozilla engineer Mark Goodwin discovered that the Firefox Health Report (about:healthreport) accepts certain events from any content document present in the remote-report iframe. If there were another vulnerability that allowed the injection of web content into the Firefox Health Report iframe, this content could change the sharing preferences of a user by firing the appropriate events at its containing page. 

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https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-48.html
Comment 1 Siddharth Sharma 2016-04-25 19:10:06 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Mark Goodwin
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