CVE-2016-5265

MediumCVSS 5.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.3 allow user-assisted remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy, and conduct Universal XSS (UXSS) attacks or read arbitrary files, by arranging for the presence of a crafted HTML document and a crafted shortcut file in the same local directory.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 5.5/10CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-79CWE-200

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Aug 5, 2016
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2016-5265: Medium severity, CVSS 5.5 | Vulnix