Improper Certificate Validation Affecting firefox-esr package, versions <45.5.0esr-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.27% (68th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN13-FIREFOXESR-5679464
  • published11 Jun 2018
  • disclosed11 Jun 2018

Introduced: 11 Jun 2018

CVE-2016-9064  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-295  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:13 firefox-esr to version 45.5.0esr-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream firefox-esr package and not the firefox-esr package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:13 relevant fixed versions and status.

Add-on updates failed to verify that the add-on ID inside the signed package matched the ID of the add-on being updated. An attacker who could perform a man-in-the-middle attack on the user's connection to the update server and defeat the certificate pinning protection could provide a malicious signed add-on instead of a valid update. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 45.5 and Firefox < 50.