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MFSA2016-81 Firefox: Information disclosure and local file manipulation through drag and drop (CVE-2016-5266)

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MFSA2016-81 Firefox: Information disclosure and local file manipulation through drag and drop (CVE-2016-5266)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
08/02/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/03/2016
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 does not properly restrict drag-and-drop (aka dataTransfer) actions for file: URIs, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to access local files via a crafted web site.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-48_0

References

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