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CVE-2016-5291

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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

Related Resources (14)

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1292159
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-89/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94336
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-5291
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-90/
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-93/
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5291
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037298
https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3730
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-5291
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2780.html
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5291
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2016-5291

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Improper Input Validation

CWE-20

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CVSS v3.1

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