Information disclosure in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2016-5288
Published: October 24, 2016 / Updated: February 6, 2017
Vulnerability identifier: #VU1041
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-5288
CWE-ID: CWE-416
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote unauthenticated user to access potentially sensitive information on the target system.
The weakness is due to insufficient input validation. By tricking the victim to download a specially crafted content, attackers can view potentially sensitive URL and page content from the HTTP cache.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in disclosure of important data on the vulnerable system.
The weakness is due to insufficient input validation. By tricking the victim to download a specially crafted content, attackers can view potentially sensitive URL and page content from the HTTP cache.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in disclosure of important data on the vulnerable system.
Affected software
Mozilla Firefox
Ubuntu
Fedora
firefox
Ubuntu
Fedora
firefox
How to mitigate CVE-2016-5288
Update to version 49.0.2.
firefox - addressed in versions 49.0.2-1.fc23, 49.0.2-1.fc24