CVE-2016-2816

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.3% 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-284

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 46.0 allows remote attackers to bypass the Content Security Policy (CSP) protection mechanism via the multipart/x-mixed-replace content type.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 45.0.2

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00005.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00038.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-45.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035692
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2936-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2936-2
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2936-3
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1223743
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00005.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00038.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-45.html

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