Medium severity4.3NVD Advisory· Published Apr 30, 2016· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2016-2820
CVE-2016-2820
Description
The Firefox Health Reports (aka FHR or about:healthreport) feature in Mozilla Firefox before 46.0 does not properly restrict the origin of events, which makes it easier for remote attackers to modify sharing preferences by leveraging access to the remote-report IFRAME element.
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Affected products
4cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <=45.0.2
- (no CPE)range: <46.0
- 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
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References
9- www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-48.htmlnvdVendor Advisory
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00005.htmlnvd
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00038.htmlnvd
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1035692nvd
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2936-1nvd
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2936-2nvd
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2936-3nvd
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cginvd
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15nvd
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