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.
Published: 2016-01-31
Score: 7.4 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2016-3031 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-2880-1 Firefox vulnerabilities
History

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T23:10:40.441Z

Reserved: 2016-01-20T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2016-1942

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2016-01-31T18:59:08.763

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2016-1942

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Weaknesses