CVE-2016-5282

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS6.5
Exploit probability—
ProductMozilla Firefox
PublishedSep 22, 2016
First seenSep 22, 2016

How to fix

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
mozilla firefoxv ≤ 48.0.2—

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CVE-2016-5282 · Mozilla Firefox · Dark Radar