High severity7.4NVD Advisory· Published Jan 31, 2016· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2016-1942
CVE-2016-1942
Description
Mozilla Firefox before 44.0 allows user-assisted remote attackers to spoof a trailing substring in the address bar by leveraging a user's paste of a (1) wyciwyg: URI or (2) resource: URI.
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Affected products
7cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <=43.0.4
- (no CPE)range: <44.0
- osv-coords2 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/firefox-esr&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/opensuse/MozillaFirefox&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed
< 128.5.1-1.1+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: < 128.5.1-1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 50.1.0-1.1
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
9- www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-09.htmlnvdVendor Advisory
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00001.htmlnvd
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00002.htmlnvd
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/81948nvd
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1034825nvd
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2880-1nvd
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2880-2nvd
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cginvd
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06nvd
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