Mozilla Firefox before 44.0 allows user-assisted remote attackers to spoof a trailing substring in the address bar by leveraging a user's…

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 44.0 allows user-assisted remote attackers to spoof a trailing substring in the address bar by leveraging a user's paste of a (1) wyciwyg: URI or (2) resource: URI.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

1.8% · top 22% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.4.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-20 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-20 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (9)

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1189082 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 1034825 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• USN-2880-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• USN-2880-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• openSUSE-SU-2016:0309 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• 81948 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• GLSA-201605-06 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-09.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• openSUSE-SU-2016:0306 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2016-1942](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2016-1942.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2016-1942)

Record last updated 5 Aug 2024, 23:10 UTC.