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7.4high

CVE-2016-1942

Mozilla Firefox before 44.0 allows user-assisted remote attackers to spoof a trailing substring in the address bar by leveraging a user's p…

Published 10 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
7.4
v3.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
1.8%
percentile 79%
Public exploits
0
none known

Mozilla Firefox before 44.0 allows user-assisted remote attackers to spoof a trailing substring in the address bar by leveraging a user's paste of a (1) wyciwyg: URI or (2) resource: URI.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

1.80% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 79% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
NVD3.07.4CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD2.04.3AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

  • bugzilla.mozilla.org /show_bug.cgi?id=1189082 · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred
  • securitytracker.com /id/1034825 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK, x_transferred
  • ubuntu.com /usn/USN-2880-1 · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU, x_transferred
  • ubuntu.com /usn/USN-2880-2 · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU, x_transferred
  • lists.opensuse.org /opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00002.html · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE, x_transferred
  • securityfocus.com /bid/81948 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred
  • security.gentoo.org /glsa/201605-06 · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO, x_transferred
  • mozilla.org /security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-09.html · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred
  • lists.opensuse.org /opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00001.html · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE, x_transferred

Sources

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