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CVE-2016-9070
A maliciously crafted page loaded to the sidebar through a bookmark can reference a privileged chrome window and engage in limited…
High8.0EPSS 1.9%
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- mozilla
Description
A maliciously crafted page loaded to the sidebar through a bookmark can reference a privileged chrome window and engage in limited JavaScript operations violating cross-origin protections. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 50.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High8.0 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.9% · top 21% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.0.
Weakness
- Sidebar bookmark can have reference to chrome window
- CWE-264 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-264 and its CVEs
Affected products
References (4)
- 94337 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1281071 (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)
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