CVE-2016-5260 — Sensitive Information Exposure in Firefox

CWE-200 — Sensitive Information Exposure8 documents7 sources
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
OSV9.8
EPSS
0.6%
top 30.36%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
Mozilla FirefoxDebian FirefoxDebian Firefox-esr
Timeline
PublishedAug 5
Latest updateMay 17

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 mishandles changes from 'INPUT type="password"' to 'INPUT type="text"' within a single Session Manager session, which might allow attackers to discover cleartext passwords by reading a session restoration file.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages4 packages

▶Ubuntumozilla/firefox< 48.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+1
▶NVDmozilla/firefox47.0.1
▶debiandebian/firefox< firefox 48.0-1 (sid)
▶debiandebian/firefox-esr< firefox 48.0-1 (sid)

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-38xv-6f7m-5xxq: Mozilla Firefox before 48↗2022-05-17
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OSV
firefox vulnerabilities↗2016-08-05
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OSV
CVE-2016-5260: Mozilla Firefox before 48↗2016-08-03
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities↗2016-08-05
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Red Hat
Mozilla: Form input type change from password to text can store plain text password in session restore file (MFSA 2016-74)↗2016-08-02
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Debian
CVE-2016-5260: firefox - Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 mishandles changes from 'INPUT type="password"' to '...↗2016
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-5260 Mozilla: Form input type change from password to text can store plain text password in session restore file (MFSA 2016-74)↗2016-08-01
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