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CVE-2016-5282
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2016-09-22T22:59:16.957 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:49:06.880

Summary

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.

Affected products

mozilla — firefox

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References

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