Medium severity4.3NVD Advisory· Published Sep 22, 2016· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2016-5279

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 49.0 allows user-assisted remote attackers to obtain sensitive full-pathname information during a local-file drag-and-drop operation via crafted JavaScript code.

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Affected products

Mozilla Corporation/Firefoxllm-fuzzy2 versions
<49.0+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: <49.0
- cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <=48.0.2
osv-coords2 versions
pkg:rpm/opensuse/MozillaFirefox&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed pkg:rpm/opensuse/firefox-esr&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed
< 50.1.0-1.1+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: < 50.1.0-1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 128.5.1-1.1

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-85.htmlnvdVendor Advisory
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cginvdIssue Tracking
www.securityfocus.com/bid/93052nvd
www.securitytracker.com/id/1036852nvd
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15nvd

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