PT-2016-6340 · Mozilla+3 · Firefox+3

:Bnicholson + 5 · Published 2016-09-20 · Updated 2024-12-12 · CVE-2016-5282

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 49.0

Description The issue is related to the improper restriction of the scheme in favicon requests. This might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors. For example, a jar: URL for a favicon resource can be used to demonstrate this issue.

Recommendations For versions prior to 49.0, update to version 49.0 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-2049

ALT-PU-2017-1578

CVE-2016-5282

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_2368-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_2386-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1

USN-3076-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Firefox

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 2087

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5281 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5278 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3076-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5274 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5272 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5282 · Security Note
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5280 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3076-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-5282 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5282 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-5282 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5283 · Vendor Advisory