CVE-2016-5260 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 mishandles changes from 'INPUT type="password"' to 'INPUT type="text"' within a single Session Manager session, which might allow attackers to discover cleartext passwords by reading a session restoration file.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Mozilla	Firefox

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

No data.

References

Link	Providers
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00004.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00029.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-74.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92260
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036508
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3044-1
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1280294
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5260
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-5260
https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-74.html

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published: 2016-08-05T01:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T00:53:49.042Z

Reserved: 2016-06-03T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-5260

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2016-08-05T01:59:16.033

Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Link: CVE-2016-5260

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-5260 - Bugzilla

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