VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-1939

medium
Published 2016-01-31 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
5.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.3

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 44.0 stores cookies with names containing vertical tab characters, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading HTTP Cookie headers. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-7208.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
63%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse suse42.1affected
suse suse13.1affected
suse suse13.2affected

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
mozilla mozillafirefox{"endIncluding":"43.0.4"}

References

CWEs

CWE-200

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.