CVE-2016-5282 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

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://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-85.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93052
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036852
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=932335
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5282
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-5282
https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-85.html

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published: 2016-09-22T22:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T00:53:48.999Z

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

Link: CVE-2016-5282

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2016-09-22T22:59:16.957

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

Link: CVE-2016-5282

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2016-09-20T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-5282 - Bugzilla

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