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CVE-2016-5292
During URL parsing, a maliciously crafted URL can cause a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 50.
Medium6.5EPSS 1.5%
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- mozilla
Description
During URL parsing, a maliciously crafted URL can cause a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 50.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.5% · top 26% 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 6.5.
Weakness
- URL parsing causes crash
- CWE-20 (opens in a new tab)
Affected products
Mozilla · Firefox
- affected unspecified – < 50
References (4)
- 94337 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1288482 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1037298 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-89/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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)
Record last updated .