CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-5282
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-09-22
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-200
Description
Mozilla Firefox before 49.0 does not properly restrict the scheme in favicon requests, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors, as demonstrated by a jar: URL for a favicon resource.
Affected configurations
• mozilla firefox (<= 48.0.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness
References
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-85.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93052 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036852 www.securitytracker.com
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=932335 Issue Tracking
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15 security.gentoo.org
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-85.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93052 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036852 www.securitytracker.com
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=932335 Issue Tracking
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15 security.gentoo.org