VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-5265

medium
Published 2016-08-05 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
5.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.5

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.3 allow user-assisted remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy, and conduct Universal XSS (UXSS) attacks or read arbitrary files, by arranging for the presence of a crafted HTML document and a crafted shortcut file in the same local directory.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
55%
Patch ETA
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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 slesaffected
debian debiansidfixed48.0-1
debian debianforkyfixed45.3.0esr-1
debian debiantrixiefixed45.3.0esr-1
debian debianbookwormfixed45.3.0esr-1
debian debianbullseyefixed45.3.0esr-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
mozilla mozillafirefox{"endIncluding":"47.0.1"}
mozilla mozillafirefox45.1.0
mozilla mozillafirefox45.1.1
mozilla mozillafirefox45.2.0
mozilla mozillafirefox45.3.0

References

CWEs

CWE-79 CWE-200

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

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