CVE-2016-1949
High
CVE-2016-1949
Mozilla Firefox before 44.0.2 does not properly restrict the interaction between Service Workers and plugins, which allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy via a crafted web site that triggers spoofed responses to requests that use NPAPI, as demonstrated by a request for a crossdomain.xml file.
Exploit probability
1.5%
Published
February 13, 2016
Required by
Not available
Last source change
March 15, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
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CVE-2016-1949
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Mozilla Firefox before 44.0.2 does not properly restrict the interaction between Service Workers and plugins, which allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy via a crafted web site that triggers spoofed responses to requests that use NPAPI, as demonstrated by a request for a crossdomain.xml file.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00102.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00142.html
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-13.html
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035007
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2893-1
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1245724
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06