CVE-2016-1939

MEDIUM

Mozilla Firefox <44.0 - Info Disclosure

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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 (8)

Core 8
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034825
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2880-1
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2880-2
Issue Tracking x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1233784

Scores

CVSS v3 5.3
EPSS 0.0058
EPSS Percentile 69.2%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-200
Status published
Products (4)
mozilla/firefox < 43.0.4
opensuse/leap 42.1
opensuse/opensuse 13.1
opensuse/opensuse 13.2
Published Jan 31, 2016
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026