Medium severity4.3NVD Advisory· Published Apr 30, 2016· Updated May 6, 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.
Affected products
1Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
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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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