CVE-2016-5298 Information

Description

A mechanism where disruption of the loading of a new web page can cause the previous page’s favicon and SSL indicator to not be reset when the new page is loaded. Note: this issue only affects Firefox for Android. Desktop Firefox is unaffected. This vulnerability affects Firefox 50.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94337 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037298 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1227538 https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-89/

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

6.5