CVE-2016-1942

7.4 HIGH

Published: January 31, 2016 Modified: May 06, 2026

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 44.0 allows user-assisted remote attackers to spoof a trailing substring in the address bar by leveraging a user's paste of a (1) wyciwyg: URI or (2) resource: URI.

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CVSS v3.x Details

0.0 Low Medium High Critical 10.0

Vector String

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00001.html

Source: security@mozilla.org

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00002.html

Source: security@mozilla.org

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-09.html

Source: security@mozilla.org

Vendor Advisory

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81948

Source: security@mozilla.org

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034825

Source: security@mozilla.org

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2880-1

Source: security@mozilla.org

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2880-2

Source: security@mozilla.org

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1189082

Source: security@mozilla.org

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06

Source: security@mozilla.org

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00001.html