MFSA2016-28 Firefox: Addressbar spoofing though history navigation and Location protocol property (CVE-2016-1965)
4
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
03/08/2016
07/25/2018
03/10/2016
11/27/2024
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.
Solution(s)
- mozilla-firefox-esr-upgrade-38_7
- mozilla-firefox-upgrade-45_0
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