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Medium severity4.3NVD Advisory· Published Aug 5, 2016· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2016-2830

CVE-2016-2830

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.3 preserve the network connection used for favicon resource retrieval after the associated browser window is closed, which makes it easier for remote web servers to track users by observing network traffic from multiple IP addresses.

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