CVE-2016-5279 — Sensitive Information Exposure in Firefox

CWE-200 — Sensitive Information Exposure8 documents7 sources
Severity
4.3MEDIUMNVD
OSV6.5
EPSS
0.4%
top 40.86%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
Mozilla FirefoxDebian FirefoxDebian Firefox-esr
Timeline
PublishedSep 22
Latest updateMay 17

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 49.0 allows user-assisted remote attackers to obtain sensitive full-pathname information during a local-file drag-and-drop operation via crafted JavaScript code.

CVSS vector

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

Affected Packages4 packages

▶Ubuntumozilla/firefox< 49.0+build4-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+1
▶NVDmozilla/firefox48.0.2
▶debiandebian/firefox< firefox 49.0-1 (sid)
▶debiandebian/firefox-esr< firefox 49.0-1 (sid)

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-rwgx-gvrc-xv45: Mozilla Firefox before 49↗2022-05-17
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OSV
CVE-2016-5279: Mozilla Firefox before 49↗2016-09-22
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OSV
firefox vulnerabilities↗2016-09-22
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities↗2016-09-22
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Red Hat
Mozilla: Full local path of files is available to web pages after drag and drop (MFSA 2016-85)↗2016-09-20
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Debian
CVE-2016-5279: firefox - Mozilla Firefox before 49.0 allows user-assisted remote attackers to obtain sens...↗2016
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-5279 Mozilla: Full local path of files is available to web pages after drag and drop (MFSA 2016-85)↗2016-09-20
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