High severity8.8NVD Advisory· Published Feb 13, 2016· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2016-1949
CVE-2016-1949
Description
Mozilla Firefox before 44.0.2 does not properly restrict the interaction between Service Workers and plugins, which allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy via a crafted web site that triggers spoofed responses to requests that use NPAPI, as demonstrated by a request for a crossdomain.xml file.
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Affected products
4cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <=44.0.1
- (no CPE)range: <44.0.2
- 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
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References
7- www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-13.htmlnvdVendor Advisory
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00102.htmlnvd
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00142.htmlnvd
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1035007nvd
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2893-1nvd
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cginvd
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06nvd
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