CVE-2016-5265 — Cross-site Scripting in Mozilla Firefox

CWE-79 — Cross-site ScriptingCWE-200 — Sensitive Information Exposure8 documents8 sources
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.3%
top 50.48%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Mozilla FirefoxOracle Linux
Timeline
PublishedAug 5
Latest updateMay 13

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.3 allow user-assisted remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy, and conduct Universal XSS (UXSS) attacks or read arbitrary files, by arranging for the presence of a crafted HTML document and a crafted shortcut file in the same local directory.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:NExploitability: 1.0 | Impact: 4.0

Affected Packages2 packages

▶NVDmozilla/firefox47.0.1+4
▶NVDoracle/linux5.0, 6, 7+2

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-vf6c-g2gw-jg5r: Mozilla Firefox before 48↗2022-05-13
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OSV
CVE-2016-5265: Mozilla Firefox before 48↗2016-08-05
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CVEList
CVE-2016-5265: Mozilla Firefox before 48↗2016-08-05
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities↗2016-08-05
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Red Hat
Mozilla: Same-origin policy violation using local HTML file and saved shortcut file (MFSA 2016-80)↗2016-08-02
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Debian
CVE-2016-5265: firefox - Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.3 allow user-assisted...↗2016
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-5265 Mozilla: Same-origin policy violation using local HTML file and saved shortcut file (MFSA 2016-80)↗2016-08-01
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