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CVE-2016-1965

Published: Mar 13, 2016 | Modified: Apr 12, 2025
CVSS 3.x
4.3
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V2
4.3 MODERATE
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-1965
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/254.html

Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.7 mishandle a navigation sequence that returns to the original page, which allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar via vectors involving the history.back method and the location.protocol property.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
FirefoxMozilla*44.0.2 (including)
FirefoxMozilla38.0 (including)38.0 (including)
FirefoxMozilla38.0.1 (including)38.0.1 (including)
FirefoxMozilla38.0.5 (including)38.0.5 (including)
FirefoxMozilla38.1.0 (including)38.1.0 (including)
FirefoxMozilla38.1.1 (including)38.1.1 (including)
FirefoxMozilla38.2.0 (including)38.2.0 (including)
FirefoxMozilla38.2.1 (including)38.2.1 (including)
FirefoxMozilla38.3.0 (including)38.3.0 (including)
FirefoxMozilla38.4.0 (including)38.4.0 (including)
FirefoxMozilla38.5.0 (including)38.5.0 (including)
FirefoxMozilla38.5.1 (including)38.5.1 (including)
FirefoxMozilla38.6.0 (including)38.6.0 (including)
FirefoxMozilla38.6.1 (including)38.6.1 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5RedHatfirefox-0:38.7.0-1.el5_11*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6RedHatfirefox-0:38.7.0-1.el6_7*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7RedHatfirefox-0:38.7.0-1.el7_2*
FirefoxUbuntuprecise*
FirefoxUbuntutrusty*
FirefoxUbuntuupstream*
FirefoxUbuntuwily*

References

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