CVE-2016-2825

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Published 2016-06-13 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS v2
4.3
VIR risk
6.5

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 47.0 allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and modify the location.host property via an invalid data: URL.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-2825

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: security@mozilla.org — http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-54.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2825.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debiansidfixed47.0-1
debian debianbookwormfixed0
debian debianbullseyefixed0
debian debianforkyfixed0
debian debiantrixiefixed0
ubuntu ubuntu12.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu14.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu15.10affected
ubuntu ubuntu16.04affected
suse suse42.1affected
suse suse13.1affected
suse suse13.2affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
mozilla mozillafirefox{"endIncluding":"46.0.1"}

References

CWEs

CWE-284

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