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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jun 11, 2018· Updated Aug 6, 2024

CVE-2016-9064

CVE-2016-9064

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.

Affected products

44

Patches

0

No patches discovered yet.

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