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Actively exploited vulnerability

Mozilla Firefox, Firefox ESR, and Thunderbird: memory corruption flaw under attack

CVE-2016-9079 · Mozilla Firefox, Firefox ESR, and Thunderbird Use-After-Free Vulnerability

Concerns everyone who uses it7.5 high

What is affected

Mozilla Firefox, Firefox ESR, and Thunderbird is found on ordinary personal computers and phones, so this is not only a problem for companies. If you use it and have not updated since the fix was released, you are exposed.

Mozilla Firefox, Firefox ESR, and Thunderbird contain a use-after-free vulnerability in SVG Animation, targeting Firefox and Tor browser users on Windows.

CISA's description

What an attacker can do

This is a memory corruption flaw. It lets an attacker corrupt the program's memory by feeding it specially crafted content: a web page, a file or a network message. The result ranges from a crash to the attacker running their own code.

How it is reached
Over the internet or network
Access the attacker needs
No account needed
Does the victim have to do something?
No, works without the victim doing anything

What to do

  1. Update Mozilla Firefox, Firefox ESR, and Thunderbird now. Open the update or "About" screen, install whatever is offered and restart the app or device, because the fix is not active until you do.
  2. Turn on automatic updates so the next fix arrives without you having to look for it.
  3. If your device is too old to receive this update, stop using the affected app for anything sensitive and plan a replacement.

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Action required by CISA for US federal agencies

Vendor advisories and fixes

  • mozilla.orgwww.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-92/#CVE-2016-9079

How urgent is it

CISA added this vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue on June 22, 2023, which means there is reliable evidence of attacks in the wild. US federal agencies must fix it by July 13, 2023, a deadline that has already passed. That deadline does not bind anyone else, but it shows how seriously the agency rates it.

The EPSS model estimates a 88% probability that this flaw will be exploited somewhere in the next 30 days. That is higher than 99.8% of all scored vulnerabilities.

Its CVSS severity score is 7.5 out of 10 (high), as recorded in the US National Vulnerability Database.

Technical description

A use-after-free vulnerability in SVG Animation has been discovered. An exploit built on this vulnerability has been discovered in the wild targeting Firefox and Tor Browser users on Windows. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 50.0.2, Firefox ESR < 45.5.1, and Thunderbird < 45.5.1.

NIST National Vulnerability Database
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