CVE-2016-2830

CVSS V2 Medium 4.3 CVSS V3 Medium 4.3
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.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2016-2830
  • Assigner
  • security@mozilla.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Modified
  • Published Version
  • 2016-08-05T01:59:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2017-08-16T01:29:06
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-200 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/200.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 47.0.1
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:45.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:45.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:45.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:45.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • MEDIUM
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Integrity Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • NONE
  • Base Score
  • 4.3
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 8.6
  • Impact Score
  • 2.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.0
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
  • Attack Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • REQUIRED
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • LOW
  • Availability Impact
  • NONE
  • Base Score
  • 4.3
  • Base Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 2.8
  • Impact Score
  • 1.4
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-63.html Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1255270 Issue Tracking Permissions Required
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1551.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3044-1
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00004.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00029.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3640
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92261
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036508
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2830
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2830
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 09:03:04 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-02 10:41:13 2016-08-05T01:59Z 2016-08-05T01:59:00 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-02 10:41:13 2017-08-16T01:29:06 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-02 10:41:13 Modified Vulnerability Status updated