CVE-2016-9078 — Open Redirect in Mozilla Firefox
Severity
8.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
1.2%
top 21.27%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJun 11
Latest updateMay 14
Description
Redirection from an HTTP connection to a "data:" URL assigns the referring site's origin to the "data:" URL in some circumstances. This can result in same-origin violations against a domain if it loads resources from malicious sites. Cross-origin setting of cookies has been demonstrated without the ability to read them. Note: This issue only affects Firefox 49 and 50. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 50.0.1.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 5.9
Affected Packages5 packages
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
3GHSA▶
GHSA-97gg-j6v9-fvp7: Redirection from an HTTP connection to a "data:" URL assigns the referring site's origin to the "data:" URL in some circumstances↗2022-05-14
OSV▶
CVE-2016-9078: Redirection from an HTTP connection to a "data:" URL assigns the referring site's origin to the "data:" URL in some circumstances↗2016-11-30