| Name | CVE-2017-5393 |
| Description | The "mozAddonManager" allows for the installation of extensions from the CDN for addons.mozilla.org, a publicly accessible site. This could allow malicious extensions to install additional extensions from the CDN in combination with an XSS attack on Mozilla AMO sites. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 51. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more) |
| NVD severity | medium |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| firefox (PTS) | sid | 72.0.2-1 | fixed |
| firefox-esr (PTS) | jessie | 52.8.1esr-1~deb8u1 | fixed |
| jessie (security) | 68.4.0esr-1~deb8u1 | fixed | |
| stretch | 60.7.1esr-1~deb9u1 | fixed | |
| stretch (security) | 68.4.1esr-1~deb9u1 | fixed | |
| buster | 68.2.0esr-1~deb10u1 | fixed | |
| buster (security) | 68.4.1esr-1~deb10u1 | fixed | |
| bullseye | 68.4.1esr-1 | fixed | |
| sid | 68.4.2esr-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| firefox | source | (unstable) | 51.0-1 | |||
| firefox-esr | source | (unstable) | (not affected) |
- firefox-esr <not-affected> (Does not affect Firefox ESR)
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-01/#CVE-2017-5393