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CVE-2016-1948

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% 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-310

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 44.0 on Android does not ensure that HTTPS is used for a lightweight-theme installation, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to replace a theme's images and colors by modifying the client-server data stream.

Affected products

• Android: all versions
• Mozilla Firefox: 43.0.4

References

• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-12.html
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034825
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1235876
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-12.html
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034825
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1235876
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06

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