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CVE-2016-1940

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-01-31 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-17

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 44.0 on Android allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar via a data: URL that is mishandled during (1) shortcut opening or (2) BOOKMARK intent processing.

Affected products

• Android: all versions
• Mozilla Firefox: through 43.0.4

References

• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-05.html
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034825
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1208525
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-05.html
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034825
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1208525
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06

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