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CVE-2016-1965

Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.7 mishandle a navigation sequence that returns to the original page, which…

Medium4.3EPSS 2.2%
Published
Updated
Reserved
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mozilla

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.7 mishandle a navigation sequence that returns to the original page, which allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar via vectors involving the history.back method and the location.protocol property.

Scores

CVSS scores of CVE-2016-1965, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
NVDNVD · Modified3.0Medium4.3CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
2.2% · top 17% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)

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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.

Weakness

Affected products

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