CVE-2016-2833

medium

Published 2016-06-13 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

6.1

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.1

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 47.0 ignores Content Security Policy (CSP) directives for cross-domain Java applets, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a crafted applet.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

71%

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	Fixed in
sles		affected
debian	sid	fixed	`47.0-1`
debian	bookworm	fixed	`0`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`0`
debian	forky	fixed	`0`
debian	trixie	fixed	`0`
ubuntu	12.04	affected
ubuntu	14.04	affected
ubuntu	15.10	affected
ubuntu	16.04	affected
suse	42.1	affected
suse	13.1	affected
suse	13.2	affected

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
mozilla	firefox	`{"endIncluding":"46.0.1"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-79 CWE-254

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

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