CVE-2016-5284
Estado: ModificadaAlta (7.4)—
Mozilla Firefox en versiones anteriores a la 49.0, Firefox ESR en versiones 45.x anteriores a la 45.4 y Thunderbird en versiones anteriores a la 45.4 confían en fechas de expiración erróneas para Preloaded Public Key Pinning, lo que permite a los atacantes Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) suplantar las actualizaciones de los add-ons aprovechando la posesión de un certificado de servidor X.509 para addons.mozilla.org firmado por una autoridad certificadora integrada arbitraria.
CVSS
- Versión: 3.0
- Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Puntuación base: 7.4
Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)
- Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 2.37%
- Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 83
- Fecha de la puntuación: 11/10/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).
Tecnologías afectadas (1)
CWE
- CWE-20
Referencias
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1912.html
- http://seclists.org/dailydave/2016/q3/51
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3674
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-85.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2016-3090545.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93049
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036852
- https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2016/09/16/update-on-add-on-pinning-vulnerability/
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1303127
- https://hackernoon.com/tor-browser-exposed-anti-privacy-implantation-at-mass-scale-bd68e9eb1e95
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-86/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-88/
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1912.html
- http://seclists.org/dailydave/2016/q3/51
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3674
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-85.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2016-3090545.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93049
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036852
- https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2016/09/16/update-on-add-on-pinning-vulnerability/
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1303127
- https://hackernoon.com/tor-browser-exposed-anti-privacy-implantation-at-mass-scale-bd68e9eb1e95
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-86/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-88/
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