Mozilla Firefox CVE-2016-2816 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Description

Security researcher Muneaki Nishimura (nishimunea) of Recruit Technologies Co., Ltd. reported that Content Security Policy (CSP) is not applied correctly to web content sent with the multipart/x-mixed-replace MIME type. This allows for script to run in instances where CSP should block it, leading to a failure to prevent potential cross-site scripting (XSS) and other attacks against the web page.

Affected Applications

Firefox

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