CVE-2016-5283

HighCVSS 8.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 49.0 allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy via a crafted fragment identifier in the SRC attribute of an IFRAME element, leading to insufficient restrictions on link-color information after a document is resized.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 8.8/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-284

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Sep 22, 2016
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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