CVE-2011-3656
Published: 02 June 2021
Summary
CVE-2011-3656 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox. Its CVSS base score is 6.1 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 40.7% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2011-3615
Vulnerability details
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.24 and 4.x through 7 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving HTTP 0.9 errors, non-default ports, and content-sniffing.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.
Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.
Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.