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CVE-2016-5291

Date: June 11, 2018

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.

Language: Unix

Severity Score

5.5

Related Resources (14)

Url: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1292159

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

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

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

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-5291

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

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

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5291

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

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

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-5291

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

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5291

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2016-5291

Severity Score

5.5

Weakness Type (CWE)

Input Validation

CWE-20

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	5.5
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	LOW
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	NONE

CVSS v2

Base Score:	4.9
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	COMPLETE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	NONE
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