CVE-2016-9901

Publication date 13 December 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

HTML tags received from the Pocket server will be processed without sanitization and any JavaScript code executed will be run in the "about:pocket-saved" (unprivileged) page, giving it access to Pocket's messaging API through HTML injection. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 45.6 and Firefox < 50.1.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
firefox	16.10 yakkety	Fixed 50.1.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.10.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 50.1.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 50.1.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed 50.1.0+build2-0ubuntu0.12.04.1
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

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3155-1
Firefox vulnerabilities
13 December 2016