CVE-2016-5282

medium

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.

References

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

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

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

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

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2016-09-22

Updated: 2017-07-30

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

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