CVE-2016-1939
Mozilla Firefox before 44.0 stores cookies with names containing vertical tab characters, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading HTTP Cookie headers. NOTE: this
02 Description
Mozilla Firefox before 44.0 stores cookies with names containing vertical tab characters, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading HTTP Cookie headers. NOTE: this
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 1.76% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 77.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 5.3 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2016-01-31 18:00Z10 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-05 23:10Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2016-01-20
- Assigning CNA
- mozilla
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-200Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized ActorClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 4e63bf7c9b97feab3b1e5c9c68abe3c88df1cf19f9e39c08806ecbeba87fd03b
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.securitytracker.com1034825http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034825
- www.ubuntu.comUSN-2880-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2880-1
- www.ubuntu.comUSN-2880-2http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2880-2
- www.mozilla.orghttp://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-04.html
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2016:0309http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00002.html
- bugzilla.mozilla.orghttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1233784
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201605-06https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2016:0306http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00001.html
07 Fixed in
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- firefox Fixed in 44.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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