Description
Mozilla Firefox before 49.0 does not properly restrict the scheme in favicon requests, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors, as demonstrated by a jar: URL for a favicon resource.
Published: 2016-09-22
Score: 6.5 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2016-6233 Mozilla Firefox before 49.0 does not properly restrict the scheme in favicon requests, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors, as demonstrated by a jar: URL for a favicon resource.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3076-1 Firefox vulnerabilities
History

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T00:53:48.999Z

Reserved: 2016-06-03T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2016-5282

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2016-09-22T22:59:16.957

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

Link: CVE-2016-5282

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2016-09-20T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-5282 - Bugzilla

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