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CVE-2016-2825

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-06-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-284

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 47.0 allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and modify the location.host property via an invalid data: URL.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 15.10, 16.04
• Mozilla Firefox: through 46.0.1
• openSUSE Leap: 42.1
• Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00014.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00016.html
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-54.html
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036057
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2993-1
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1193093
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00014.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00016.html
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-54.html
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036057
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2993-1
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1193093

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