CVE-2016-2813

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-04-30 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 46.0 on Android does not properly restrict JavaScript access to orientation and motion data, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information about a device's physical environment, and possibly discover PIN values, via a crafted web site, a similar issue to CVE-2016-1780.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 45.0.2

References

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2714650
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00038.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-43.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035692
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1197901
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2714650
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00038.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-43.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035692
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1197901
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15

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