CVE-2016-5268 — Firefox vulnerability

CWE-2548 documents7 sources
Severity
4.3MEDIUMNVD
OSV9.8
EPSS
0.4%
top 36.65%
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 does not properly set the LINKABLE and URI_SAFE_FOR_UNTRUSTED_CONTENT flags of about: URLs that are used for error pages, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct spoofing attacks via a crafted URL, as demonstrated by misleading text after an about:neterror?d= substring.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:NExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 1.4

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-j5jj-f68h-7qh9: Mozilla Firefox before 48↗2022-05-17
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OSV
firefox vulnerabilities↗2016-08-05
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OSV
CVE-2016-5268: 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: Spoofing attack through text injection into internal error pages (MFSA 2016-83)↗2016-08-02
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Debian
CVE-2016-5268: firefox - Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 does not properly set the LINKABLE and URI_SAFE_FOR_...↗2016
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-5268 Mozilla: Spoofing attack through text injection into internal error pages (MFSA 2016-83)↗2016-08-01
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