CVE-2016-1939

medium

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 44.0 stores cookies with names containing vertical tab characters, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading HTTP Cookie headers. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-7208.

References

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

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1233784

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

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

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

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-04.html

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

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2016-01-31

Updated: 2018-10-30

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium