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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2016-1939

Mozilla Firefox before 44.0 stores cookies with names containing vertical tab characters, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading HTTP Cookie headers.

MEDIUM 5.3EPSS 1.76%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.76%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 44.0 stores cookies with names containing vertical tab characters, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading HTTP Cookie headers. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-7208.

CVSS 3.0
5.3 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
EPSS
1.76% probability · 77th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-200
Affected
opensuse/leap · opensuse/opensuse · mozilla/firefox
Source
security@mozilla.org

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.