Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Sep 22, 2016· Updated May 6, 2026

CVE-2016-5282

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 49.0 does not properly restrict the scheme in favicon requests, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors, as demonstrated by a jar: URL for a favicon resource.

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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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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