CVE-2016-5266

Severity

57%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

81%

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.

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.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 8.1. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5.8. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N).

Overview

First reported 8 years ago

2016-08-05 01:59:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-08-16 01:29:00

Affected Software

Mozilla Firefox

References

openSUSE-SU-2016:1964

openSUSE-SU-2016:2026

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-81.html

Vendor Advisory

92260

1036508

USN-3044-1

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1226977

Issue Tracking

GLSA-201701-15

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