CVE-2016-5251

MEDIUM

Firefox < 47.0.1 - Location Bar Spoofing via Crafted Media Type in data: URL

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 allows remote attackers to spoof the location bar via crafted characters in the media type of a data: URL.

References (8)

Core 8
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036508
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3044-1
Issue Tracking x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1255570
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92260
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15

Scores

CVSS v3 4.3
EPSS 0.0055
EPSS Percentile 68.1%
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-20
Status published
Products (1)
mozilla/firefox < 47.0.1
Published Aug 05, 2016
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026