CVE-2016-2806
Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 46.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.1 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code…
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (4.69%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 46.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.1 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors.
- CVSS 3.0
- 8.8 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 4.69% probability · 92th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-119
- Affected
- debian/debian linux · opensuse/leap · opensuse/opensuse · suse/linux enterprise · mozilla/firefox
- Source
- security@mozilla.org
EPSS 4.7% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00005.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00006.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00007.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00008.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00038.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0695.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3601
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-39.htmlVendor Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035692
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2936-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2936-2
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2936-3
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1212328
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1228882
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1231919
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1238592
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1242668
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1242810
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1251922
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1253099
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1254122
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1255949
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1256065
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1258231
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1260439
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00005.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00006.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00007.html
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.