CVE-2016-1942

HIGH

Mozilla Firefox <44.0 - XSS

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 44.0 allows user-assisted remote attackers to spoof a trailing substring in the address bar by leveraging a user's paste of a (1) wyciwyg: URI or (2) resource: URI.

References (9)

Core 9
Core References
Issue Tracking x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1189082
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
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81948
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06

Scores

CVSS v3 7.4
EPSS 0.0082
EPSS Percentile 74.6%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-20
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