CVE-2016-2830 Information

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.3 preserve the network connection used for favicon resource retrieval after the associated browser window is closed which makes it easier for remote web servers to track users by observing network traffic from multiple IP addresses.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00004.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00029.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1551.html http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3640 http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-63.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92261 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036508 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3044-1 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1255270 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

4.3