CVE-2016-9064

Publication date 16 November 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

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.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
thunderbird	16.10 yakkety	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Not affected
firefox	16.10 yakkety	Fixed 50.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.10.2
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 50.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.2
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 50.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.2
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed 50.0+build2-0ubuntu0.12.04.2

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.9 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	High
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3124-1
Firefox vulnerabilities
19 November 2016