An issue where a "" dropdown menu can be used to cover location bar content, resulting in potential spoofing attacks. This attack requires e10s to be enabled in order to function. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 50.

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cve-2016-9076

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2018-06-11 21:00

Modified

2024-08-06 02:42

Severity ?

Summary

An issue where a "<select>" dropdown menu can be used to cover location bar content, resulting in potential spoofing attacks. This attack requires e10s to be enabled in order to function. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 50.

References

▼	URL	Tags
	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94337	vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
	http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037298	vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK
	https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1276976	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-89/	x_refsource_CONFIRM

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
▼	Mozilla	Firefox	Version: unspecified   < 50

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