Vulnerability CVE-2016-1947

Vulnerability Name:

CVE-2016-1947 (CCN-110197)

Assigned:

2016-01-26

Published:

2016-01-26

Updated:

2018-10-30

Summary:

Mozilla Firefox 43.x mishandles attempts to connect to the Application Reputation service, which makes it easier for remote attackers to trigger an unintended download by leveraging the absence of reputation data.

CVSS v3 Severity:

4.7 Medium (CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N)
4.1 Medium (Temporal CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N/E:U/RL:O/RC:C)

Exploitability Metrics:	Attack Vector (AV): Network Attack Complexity (AC): Low Privileges Required (PR): None User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope:	Scope (S): Changed
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): None Integrity (I): Low Availibility (A): None

4.3 Medium (CCN CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)
3.8 Low (CCN Temporal CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N/E:U/RL:O/RC:C)

Exploitability Metrics:	Attack Vector (AV): Network Attack Complexity (AC): Low Privileges Required (PR): None User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope:	Scope (S): Unchanged
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): None Integrity (I): Low Availibility (A): None

CVSS v2 Severity:

4.3 Medium (CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

Exploitability Metrics:	Access Vector (AV): Network Access Complexity (AC): Medium Authentication (Au): None
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): None Integrity (I): Partial Availibility (A): None

4.0 Medium (CCN CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)

Exploitability Metrics:	Access Vector (AV): Network Access Complexity (AC): Low Athentication (Au): Single_Instance
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): None Integrity (I): Partial Availibility (A): None

Vulnerability Type:

CWE-19

Vulnerability Consequences:

Bypass Security

References:

Source: MITRE
Type: CNA
CVE-2016-1947

Source: SUSE
Type: Third Party Advisory
openSUSE-SU-2016:0306

Source: SUSE
Type: Third Party Advisory
openSUSE-SU-2016:0309

Source: CONFIRM
Type: Vendor Advisory
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-11.html

Source: BID
Type: Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
81949

Source: CCN
Type: BID-81949
Mozilla Firefox CVE-2016-1947 Security Bypass Vulnerability

Source: SECTRACK
Type: UNKNOWN
1034825

Source: UBUNTU
Type: Third Party Advisory
USN-2880-1

Source: UBUNTU
Type: Third Party Advisory
USN-2880-2

Source: CONFIRM
Type: Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1237103

Source: XF
Type: UNKNOWN
firefox-cve20161947-sec-bypass(110197)

Source: GENTOO
Type: Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
GLSA-201605-06

Source: CCN
Type: Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2016-11
Application Reputation service disabled in Firefox 43

Source: CCN
Type: WhiteSource Vulnerability Database
CVE-2016-1947

Vulnerable Configuration:

Configuration 1:

cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*

OR cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*

OR cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:15.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

OR cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:15.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2:

cpe:/o:opensuse:leap:42.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

OR cpe:/o:opensuse:opensuse:13.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

OR cpe:/o:opensuse:opensuse:13.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 3:

cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox:43.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

OR cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox:43.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

OR cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox:43.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

OR cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox:43.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

OR cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox:43.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Denotes that component is vulnerable

Oval Definitions

Definition ID	Class	Title	Last Modified
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:20161947	V	CVE-2016-1947	2023-06-22
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:7868	P	MozillaFirefox-102.11.0-150200.152.87.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2023-06-12
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:609	P	Security update for sqlite3 (Moderate) (in QA)	2022-10-04
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:720	P	Security update for ucode-intel (Moderate)	2022-08-31
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:3252	P	libsmi-0.4.8-18.55 on GA media (Moderate)	2022-06-28
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:94882	P	MozillaFirefox-91.8.0-150200.152.26.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2022-06-22
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:1523	P	Security update for MozillaThunderbird (Important)	2022-06-13
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:1167	P	Security update for jackson-databind, jackson-dataformats-binary, jackson-annotations, jackson-bom, jackson-core (Important)	2022-05-16
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:1301	P	Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 10 for SLE 15 SP3) (Important)	2022-04-14
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:1056	P	Security update for yaml-cpp (Moderate)	2022-04-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:1412	P	Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 11 for SLE 15 SP3) (Important)	2022-02-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:111898	P	MozillaFirefox-50.1.0-1.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2022-01-17
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:945	P	Security update for net-snmp (Important)	2022-01-11
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:70030	P	Security update for xorg-x11-server (Important)	2021-12-21
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:93994	P	(Important)	2021-12-06
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:1639	P	Security update for squid (Moderate)	2021-10-20
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:105475	P	MozillaFirefox-50.1.0-1.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-10-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:71207	P	hardlink-1.0+git.e66999f-1.25 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-09-21
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:69925	P	Security update for ffmpeg (Important)	2021-09-02
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:48045	P	ibus-chewing-1.4.14-4.11 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-16
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:47570	P	bzip2-1.0.6-29.2 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-16
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:47131	P	ppc64-diag-2.7.1-5.6 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-16
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:48191	P	libsmi-0.4.8-18.55 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-16
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:47794	P	libtasn1-4.9-3.5.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-16
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:47266	P	glib2-lang-2.48.2-10.2 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-16
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:48287	P	python-pywbem-0.7.0-4.3 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-16
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:48156	P	libnetpbm11-10.66.3-8.7.2 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-16
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:47591	P	dbus-1-1.8.22-29.10.2 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-16
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:47242	P	dosfstools-3.0.26-6.5 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-16
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:48302	P	sane-backends-1.0.24-3.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-16
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:47831	P	mutt-1.10.1-55.6.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-16
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:47377	P	libmpfr4-3.1.2-7.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-16
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:47130	P	powerpc-utils-1.3.2-17.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-16
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:48129	P	libjansson4-2.12-3.5.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-16
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:47702	P	libecpg6-10.5-1.3.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-16
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:47145	P	rpcbind-0.2.3-21.4 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-16
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:48256	P	pam_krb5-2.4.4-4.4 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-16
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:47942	P	aaa_base-13.2+git20140911.61c1681-38.13.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-16
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:47459	P	pam_krb5-2.4.4-4.4 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-16
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:47241	P	dnsmasq-2.76-17.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-16
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:48358	P	zypper-1.13.51-21.26.4 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-16
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:48240	P	memcached-1.4.39-4.6.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-16
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:47683	P	libXrender1-0.9.8-7.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-16
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:47256	P	freeradius-server-3.0.14-1.8 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-16
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:72447	P	MozillaFirefox-78.10.0-8.38.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-09
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:62728	P	MozillaFirefox-78.10.0-8.38.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-09
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:101134	P	MozillaFirefox-78.10.0-8.38.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-09
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:49443	P	Security update for nodejs10 (Important)	2021-07-14
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:48469	P	libXinerama1-1.1.3-3.54 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-06-08
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:71094	P	rpcbind-0.2.3-3.22 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-06-08
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:48398	P	cyrus-sasl-2.1.26-7.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-06-08
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:48367	P	apache-commons-httpclient-3.1-4.364 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-06-08
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:64507	P	Security update for hivex (Moderate)	2021-05-26
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:67754	P	Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 21 for SLE 15) (Important)	2021-04-28
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:100707	P	(Important)	2021-02-17
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:72331	P	MozillaFirefox-68.8.0-3.87.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-03
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:107373	P	MozillaFirefox-68.8.0-3.87.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-03
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:62612	P	MozillaFirefox-68.8.0-3.87.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-03
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:116931	P	MozillaFirefox-68.8.0-3.87.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-03
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:72109	P	MozillaFirefox-52.7.3-1.35 on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-03
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:62390	P	MozillaFirefox-52.7.3-1.35 on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-03
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:89851	P	MozillaFirefox-60.6.2-3.32.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-03
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:72220	P	MozillaFirefox-60.6.2-3.32.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-03
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:103506	P	MozillaFirefox-60.6.2-3.32.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-03
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:62501	P	MozillaFirefox-60.6.2-3.32.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-03
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:73365	P	MozillaFirefox on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:49386	P	MozillaFirefox on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:49554	P	libjbig2-32bit on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:66674	P	MozillaFirefox on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:49497	P	MozillaFirefox on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:64420	P	opensc on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:73247	P	libxcb-composite0 on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:67854	P	MozillaFirefox on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:49332	P	socat on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:49608	P	MozillaFirefox on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:66582	P	pam on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:com.ubuntu.precise:def:20161947000	V	CVE-2016-1947 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (precise) - medium.	2016-01-31
oval:com.ubuntu.trusty:def:20161947000	V	CVE-2016-1947 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (trusty) - medium.	2016-01-31

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