CVE-2016-5260

MEDIUM

Mozilla Firefox < 47.0.1 - Information Disclosure

Title source: rule

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 mishandles changes from 'INPUT type="password"' to 'INPUT type="text"' within a single Session Manager session, which might allow attackers to discover cleartext passwords by reading a session restoration file.

References (8)

[Mailing List] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00004.html

[Mailing List] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00029.html

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-74.html

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036508

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3044-1

[Issue Tracking, Permissions Required] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1280294

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92260

[Third Party Advisory] https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5

EPSS 0.0060

EPSS Percentile 69.3%

Attack Vector NETWORK

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

Classification

CWE

CWE-200

Status draft

Affected Products (1)

mozilla/firefox < 47.0.1

Timeline

Published Aug 05, 2016

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026