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CVE-2016-2827

• 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: 2016-09-22 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

The mozilla::net::IsValidReferrerPolicy function in Mozilla Firefox before 49.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a Content Security Policy (CSP) referrer directive with zero values.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: through 48.0.2

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93052
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036852
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1289085
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-85/
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93052
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036852
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1289085
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-85/

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