CVE-2016-5291

medium

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.

References

Advisories
More

https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3730

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037298

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94336

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2780.html

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-93/

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-90/

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-89/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-06-11

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N