CVE-2016-5282 (GCVE-0-2016-5282)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-09-22 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 00:53
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Summary
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.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2016-09-20 00:00
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