CVE-2016-1940

MediumCVSS 5.3/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 44.0 on Android allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar via a data: URL that is mishandled during (1) shortcut opening or (2) BOOKMARK intent processing.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 5.3/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-17

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

Timeline

Published: Jan 31, 2016
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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