PT-2018-4925 · Mozilla+2 · Firefox For Android+3

Jordi Chancel · Published 2016-11-17 · Updated 2024-12-12 · CVE-2016-5298

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Firefox versions prior to 50 Firefox for Android versions prior to 50

Description A mechanism exists where the disruption of loading a new web page can cause the previous page's favicon and SSL indicator to not be reset when the new page is loaded. This issue only affects Firefox for Android, with desktop Firefox being unaffected.

Recommendations For Firefox versions prior to 50, update to version 50 or later to resolve the issue. For Firefox for Android versions prior to 50, update to version 50 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-2307

CVE-2016-5298

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_3011-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Firefox

Firefox For Android

Suse

References · 2063

• 🔥 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1227538 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-5298 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-89 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5298 · Security Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-25728 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-31743 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12392 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-5698 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-1701 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-5687 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-24713 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-8642 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-4196 · Note