CVE-2016-1965

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-03-13 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-254

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.7 mishandle a navigation sequence that returns to the original page, which allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar via vectors involving the history.back method and the location.protocol property.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 44.0.2; 38.0, 38.0.1, 38.0.5, 38.1.0, 38.1.1, 38.2.0 (+7)
Opensuse: 13.1
Oracle Corporation Oracle Linux: 5.0, 6, 7

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00027.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00029.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00031.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00050.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00068.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00089.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00091.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00093.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3510
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-28.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035215

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