CVE-2016-5282 Information

Description

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.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-85.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93052 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036852 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=932335 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

6.5