Information Exposure Affecting mozilla package, versions [,44.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.53% (78th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2377862
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed31 Jan 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 31 Jan 2016

CVE-2016-1939  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 44.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. Mozilla Firefox before 44.0 stores cookies with names containing vertical tab characters, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading HTTP Cookie headers. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-7208.

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