CVE-2016-2825
Mozilla Firefox before 47.0 allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and modify the location.host property via an invalid data: URL.
02 Description
Mozilla Firefox before 47.0 allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and modify the location.host property via an invalid data: URL.
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
- 1.69% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 76.7% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 6.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/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
- 2016-06-13 10:00Z10 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-05 23:32Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2016-03-01
- Assigning CNA
- mozilla
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-284Improper Access ControlPillar
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 29a7404be43b92489b5efa78fb528cb90621e9e280d4600bafaafa309bf81f41
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.securitytracker.com1036057http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036057
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2016:1557http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00016.html
- www.mozilla.orghttp://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-54.html
- bugzilla.mozilla.orghttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1193093
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2016:1552http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00014.html
- www.ubuntu.comUSN-2993-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2993-1
07 Fixed in
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- firefox Fixed in 47.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- firefox Fixed in 47.0+build3-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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