CVE-2016-1947

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.7 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% 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-19

Description

Mozilla Firefox 43.x mishandles attempts to connect to the Application Reputation service, which makes it easier for remote attackers to trigger an unintended download by leveraging the absence of reputation data.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 15.04, 15.10
Mozilla Firefox: 43.0, 43.0.1, 43.0.2, 43.0.3, 43.0.4
openSUSE Leap: 42.1
Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00001.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00002.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-11.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81949
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034825
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2880-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2880-2
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1237103
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00001.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00002.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-11.html

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