CVE-2016-5283

HIGH

Firefox < 48.0.2 - Same Origin Policy Bypass via IFRAME SRC Fragment Identifier

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 49.0 allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy via a crafted fragment identifier in the SRC attribute of an IFRAME element, leading to insufficient restrictions on link-color information after a document is resized.

References (5)

Core 5
Core References
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
Issue Tracking x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=928187
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036852

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.0027
EPSS Percentile 51.0%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-284
Status published
Products (1)
mozilla/firefox < 48.0.2
Published Sep 22, 2016
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026