VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2016-1942
Mozilla Firefox before 44.0 allows user-assisted remote attackers to spoof a trailing substring in the address bar by leveraging a user's paste of a (1) wyciwyg: URI or (2) resource: URI.
HIGH 7.4EPSS 1.80%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.80%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
Mozilla Firefox before 44.0 allows user-assisted remote attackers to spoof a trailing substring in the address bar by leveraging a user's paste of a (1) wyciwyg: URI or (2) resource: URI.
- CVSS 3.0
- 7.4 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
- EPSS
- 1.80% probability · 77th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-20
- Affected
- opensuse/leap · opensuse/opensuse · mozilla/firefox
- Source
- security@mozilla.org
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00001.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00002.html
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-09.htmlVendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81948
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034825
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2880-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2880-2
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1189082
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00001.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00002.html
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-09.htmlVendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81948
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034825
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2880-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2880-2
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1189082
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.