CVE-2016-9064 Security feature bypass in Firefox

What is CVE-2016-9064?

CVE-2016-9064 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 11 Jun 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-295

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-9064?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Mozilla Firefox.

How do I fix CVE-2016-9064?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2016-9064 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-9064 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9064, GHSA-pc4v-68rv-24q5, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9064.