vulnerability

CentOS: (CVE-2016-5291) CESA-2016:2780: firefox

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
Nov 15, 2016
Added
Jan 27, 2017
Modified
May 5, 2019

Description

A same-origin policy bypass with local shortcut files to load arbitrary local content from disk. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 45.5, Firefox ESR < 45.5, and Firefox < 50.

Solution

centos-upgrade-firefox
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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