High severity7.4NVD Advisory· Published Jan 31, 2016· Updated May 6, 2026

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.

Affected products

Mozilla Corporation/Firefox
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range: <=43.0.4
OpenSUSE/Leap
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:42.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
OpenSUSE/openSUSE2 versions
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.

References

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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