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MFSA2016-28 Firefox: Addressbar spoofing though history navigation and Location protocol property (CVE-2016-1965)

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MFSA2016-28 Firefox: Addressbar spoofing though history navigation and Location protocol property (CVE-2016-1965)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
03/08/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
03/10/2016
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.7 mishandle a navigation sequence that returns to the original page, which allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar via vectors involving the history.back method and the location.protocol property.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-esr-upgrade-38_7
  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-45_0

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