CVE-2016-5267

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-08-05 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 on Android allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar via left-to-right characters in conjunction with a right-to-left character set.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 47.0.1

References

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-82.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92260
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036508
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1284372
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-82.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92260
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036508
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1284372
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15

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