4.3
CVSSv2

CVE-2016-5282

Published: 22/09/2016 Updated: 30/07/2017
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.3 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
CVSS v3 Base Score: 6.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 2.8
VMScore: 383
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Vulnerability Summary

Mozilla Firefox prior to 49.0 does not properly restrict the scheme in favicon requests, which might allow remote malicious users to obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors, as demonstrated by a jar: URL for a favicon resource.

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Vendor Advisories

Firefox could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a malicious website ...
Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2016-85 Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 49 Announced September 20, 2016 Impact critical Products Firefox Fixed in Firefox 49 ...
Mozilla Firefox before 490 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 ...
Favicons can be loaded through non-whitelisted protocols, such as jar ...