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MFSA2016-59 Firefox: Information disclosure of disabled plugins through CSS pseudo-classes (CVE-2016-2832)

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

Published

Jun 7, 2016

Added

Jun 8, 2016

Modified

Mar 27, 2026

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 47.0 allows remote attackers to discover the list of disabled plugins via a fingerprinting attack involving Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) pseudo-classes.

Solution

mozilla-firefox-upgrade-47_0

References

CVE-2016-2832
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2016-2832
CWE-200
EUVD-EUVD-2016-3905
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-59.html
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2016-3905

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