CVE-2016-1942 Information

Description

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00001.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00002.html http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-09.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81948 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034825 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2880-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2880-2 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1189082 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

CHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

7.4