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Vulnerability Intelligence

CVE-2016-5279

MEDIUM4.3

Mozilla Firefox before 49

Published Sep 22, 2016

Modified 1 years ago

No fix available

Details

Mozilla Firefox before 49.0 allows user-assisted remote attackers to obtain sensitive full-pathname information during a local-file drag-and-drop operation via crafted JavaScript code.

References

WEBhttp://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-85.html WEBhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93052 WEBhttp://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036852 WEBhttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1249522 ADVISORYhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15 ADVISORYhttps://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-5279

CVSS Analysis

CVSS v3.0

4.3

Exploitability

Attack Vector

NetworkAV:N

Attack Complexity

LowAC:L

Privileges Required

NonePR:N

User Interaction

RequiredUI:R

Scope

Scope

UnchangedS:U

Impact

Confidentiality

LowC:L

Integrity

NoneI:N

Availability

NoneA:N

4.3/CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Ecosystems

Timeline

PublishedSep 22, 2016

ModifiedAug 6, 2024

CVE-2016-5279 | Mondoo Vulnerability Intelligence