CVE-2016-1939

MEDIUM

Mozilla Firefox <44.0 - Info Disclosure

Title source: llm

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)

[Mailing List] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00001.html

[Mailing List] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00002.html

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-04.html

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034825

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2880-1

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2880-2

[Issue Tracking] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1233784

[Third Party Advisory] https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06

Scores

CVSS v3 5.3

EPSS 0.0058

EPSS Percentile 68.6%

Attack Vector NETWORK

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

Classification

CWE

CWE-200

Status draft

Affected Products (4)

opensuse/leap

opensuse/opensuse

opensuse/opensuse

mozilla/firefox < 43.0.4

Timeline

Published Jan 31, 2016

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026