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.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mozilla
Published: 2016-04-30T17:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-05T23:32:21.317Z
Reserved: 2016-03-01T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2016-2817
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2016-04-30T17:59:14.647
Modified: 2024-11-21T02:48:52.380
Link: CVE-2016-2817
Redhat