CVE-2016-5260

medium
Published 2016-08-05 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v2
4.3
VIR risk
6.5

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 mishandles changes from 'INPUT type="password"' to 'INPUT type="text"' within a single Session Manager session, which might allow attackers to discover cleartext passwords by reading a session restoration file.

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-2016-5260

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: security@mozilla.org — http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-74.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debiansidfixed48.0-1
debian debianbookwormfixed0
debian debianbullseyefixed0
debian debianforkyfixed0
debian debiantrixiefixed0

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
mozilla mozillafirefox{"endIncluding":"47.0.1"}

References

CWEs

CWE-200

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