CVE-2016-5282

6.5 MEDIUM

Published: September 22, 2016 Modified: May 06, 2026

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.

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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:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-85.html

Source: security@mozilla.org

Vendor Advisory

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93052

Source: security@mozilla.org

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036852

Source: security@mozilla.org

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=932335

Source: security@mozilla.org

Issue Tracking

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15

Source: security@mozilla.org

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-85.html