Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox

CVE-2016-1965

Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.7 mishandle a navigation sequence that returns to the original page, which allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar via vectors involving the history.back method and the location.protocol property.

EPSS: 0.022 (80.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-1965?
CVE-2016-1965 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, classified under CWE-254. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2016-03-13.
How severe is CVE-2016-1965?
Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.