cve/2016/CVE-2016-2817.md

CVE-2016-2817

Description

The WebExtension sandbox feature in browser/components/extensions/ext-tabs.js in Mozilla Firefox before 46.0 does not properly restrict principal inheritance during chrome.tabs.create and chrome.tabs.update API calls, which allows remote attackers to conduct Universal XSS (UXSS) attacks via a crafted extension that accesses a (1) javascript: or (2) data: URL.

POC

Reference

• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2936-1
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2936-3

Github

No PoCs found on GitHub currently.