Description
Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.7 mishandle a navigation sequence that returns to the original page, which allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar via vectors involving the history.back method and the location.protocol property.
References (17)
Core 17
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00091.html
Mailing List vendor-advisory
x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00068.html
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html
Mailing List vendor-advisory
x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00029.html
Mailing List vendor-advisory
x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00027.html
Issue Tracking x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1245264
Mailing List vendor-advisory
x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00089.html
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_ubuntu
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2917-1
Mailing List vendor-advisory
x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00093.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3510
Mailing List vendor-advisory
x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00031.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035215
Mailing List vendor-advisory
x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00050.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-28.html
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_ubuntu
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2917-2
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_ubuntu
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2917-3
Scores
CVSS v3
4.3
EPSS
0.0050
EPSS Percentile
66.2%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Details
CWE
CWE-254
Status
published
Products (18)
mozilla/firefox
38.0
mozilla/firefox
38.0.1
mozilla/firefox
38.0.5
mozilla/firefox
38.1.0
mozilla/firefox
38.1.1
mozilla/firefox
38.2.0
mozilla/firefox
38.2.1
mozilla/firefox
38.3.0
mozilla/firefox
38.4.0
mozilla/firefox
38.5.0
... and 8 more
Published
Mar 13, 2016
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026