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medium 6.1

CVE-2016-9903 json

Mozilla's add-ons SDK had a world-accessible resource with an HTML injection vulnerability.

published 2018-06-11 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-10692

cvss
6.1
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.1%
EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 66%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Mozilla's add-ons SDK had a world-accessible resource with an HTML injection vulnerability. If an additional vulnerability allowed this resource to be loaded as a document it could allow injecting content and script into an add-on's context. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 50.1.

Patch / fix

  • Mozilla Firefox 50.1
  • firefox Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 50.1.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
  • firefox Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 50.1.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9903

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • firefox-esr openSUSE Tumbleweed 128.5.1-1.1
  • MozillaFirefox openSUSE Tumbleweed 50.1.0-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1openSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1

  • firefox Arch Linux 50.1.0-1

arch linux advisories AVG-106

Exploit prediction

1.12% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 66% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 6.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected products

  • Mozilla Firefox

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

Sources

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