CVE-2016-1947

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Published 2016-01-31 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

4.7

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

4.7

Description

Mozilla Firefox 43.x mishandles attempts to connect to the Application Reputation service, which makes it easier for remote attackers to trigger an unintended download by leveraging the absence of reputation data.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

57%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status
ubuntu	12.04	affected
ubuntu	14.04	affected
ubuntu	15.04	affected
ubuntu	15.10	affected
suse	42.1	affected
suse	13.1	affected
suse	13.2	affected

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
mozilla	firefox	`43.0`
mozilla	firefox	`43.0.1`
mozilla	firefox	`43.0.2`
mozilla	firefox	`43.0.3`
mozilla	firefox	`43.0.4`

References

CWEs

CWE-19

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

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