CVE-2016-5282

MEDIUM

Firefox < 48.0.2 - Information Exposure via Favicon Request Scheme

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 49.0 does not properly restrict the scheme in favicon requests, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors, as demonstrated by a jar: URL for a favicon resource.

References (5)

Core 5
Core References
Issue Tracking x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=932335
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93052
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036852

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0039
EPSS Percentile 60.4%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-200
Status published
Products (1)
mozilla/firefox < 48.0.2
Published Sep 22, 2016
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026